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Re:How to add or remove a byte order mark by speedRS on Friday July 20, 2012 @02:27AM (#4269698)
The only reason I can think of is it might be used to identify the encoding as UTF-8. Could be useful for parsers when the encoding type is not specified, say in the XML declaration, or when there is a mismatch between the BOM and the declaration? Other than that, it's unecessary.
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