> What I had done was load the ANSI (i.e. iso-8859-1) localization file
> into Notepad, convert to UTF-8, and saved that file.

<…>
> It turns out that Notepad places "\xEF\xBB\xBF" at the beginning of the
> file to indicate that this is a YAML file.

This is not to indicate a YAML file (I doubt Notepad knows that YAML is at all).
This is Byte-Order-Mark http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte-order_mark

> Gimme a break!
>
> Note only does Notepad put in these indicator bytes ... so does
> TextMate.
<…>
> How thoughtful that TextMate does what the article says it should not
> do.  If there is a way to turn off that behavior, I can't find it.
> Maybe there's a TextMate bundle ... who knows?


Really? Never saw Textmate to do that. Are you sure you did not
just loaded file saved elsewhere with BOM?

Regards,
Rimantas
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