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On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 12:11:41PM +0000, Aapo Talvensaari wrote:
> Is it by design that utf.len count the BOM to length?
> 
> Say utf8.len("\xEF\xBB\xBFa") will return 2 instead of 1?

Given UTF8 has only one valid "byte order", it makes no sense to ever
include a byte order marker in a UTF8 document.

B.