From: "Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner" <ed.odanow@...>
Date: 2009-02-25T21:03:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:22464] Re: [Question]utf-8 data contains BOM - by  intention or by accident?

Martin Duerst schrieb:
> I think this has been asked earlier, and I can only repeat it here:
> I don't think there are any plans to build in BOM recognition or
> removal into file opening.
There were discusions about this point end of 2007, but several encoding 
related things were changed. I think it is a good idea to leave utf-8 
BOM handling to the programmer, because otherwise some handling should 
be available for the other Unicode encodings too.