in reply to UTF-8 text files with Byte Order Mark

If your program doesn't accept BOMs, don't feed it any. BOMs are not required.

BOMs are required in some types of UTF-8 files. Try loading a UTF-8 cue sheet or m3u8 playlist without a BOM into Foobar2000 sometime...

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