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Re:Code Pages, Character Encoding, Unicode, UTF-8 and the BO... by sigjuice on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @02:04PM (#21587244)
The first time I saw a BOM (0xEF,0xBB,0xBF) was in Project Gutenberg files.

  $ curl -sO https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16681/pg16681.txt

  $ file pg16681.txt 
  pg16681.txt: UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text, with CRLF line terminators

  $ head -c3 pg16681.txt | xxd
  00000000: efbb bf                                  ...
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