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AFAIK: Nope. Microsoft loves that BOM, for reasons I cannot comprehend.
by cpach 5y ago
AFAIK: Nope. Microsoft loves that BOM, for reasons I cannot comprehend.
- andylynch 5y agoAlmost certainly for backwards compatibility. Excel in particular uses the BOM as a single to open a file in a Unicode encoding, rather than cp1252 etc.