CodePlex Issue #34655 Plain Text Attachments

bom.py

from __future__ import with_statement
from codecs import BOM_UTF8

with open('with_bom.txt', 'w') as f:
    f.write(BOM_UTF8 + u'\xe4'.encode('UTF-8'))

with open('without_bom.txt', 'w') as f:
    f.write(u'\xe4'.encode('UTF-8'))

with open('with_bom.txt') as f:
    print repr(f.read())

with open('without_bom.txt') as f:
    print repr(f.read())