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On Jun 15, 1:29=A0pm, Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-ab...@ilyaz.org> wrote:
> On 2010-06-13, to...@tuxteam.de <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote:

> ??? =A0If you know it it UTF-8, the BOM is not necessary. =A0But the same
> holds for any other encoding of Unicode. =A0So your sentiment makes no
> sense here...

Think about what the letters BOM stand for, and you might see why it
is relevant for UTF-16, but redundant for UTF-8.