On 25.07.12 08:09, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
Am 24.07.2012 17:01, schrieb cpppw...@gmail.com:
reader = codecs.getreader(encoding)
lines = []
with open(filename, 'rb') as f:
lines = reader(f, 'strict').readlines(keepends=False)
where encoding == 'utf-16-be'
Everything works fine, except that lines[0] is equal to
codecs.BOM_UTF16_BE
Is this behaviour correct, that the BOM is still present?
Yes, assuming the first line only contains that BOM. Technically it's a
space character, and why should those be removed?
If the first "character" in the file is a BOM the file encoding is
probably not utf-16-be but utf-16.
Servus,
Walter
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