Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: The explanation is that sockets are not seekable, but the heuristic to decide whether to write a BOM relies on tell() to return 0 on start-of-file. If we unconditionally wrote a BOM, there would be a risk of duplicate BOMs depending on the use case, which is more annoying than lacking a BOM at the beginning.
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