El carácter Unicode U+FEFF
es la marca de orden de bytes, o BOM, y se usa para diferenciar entre la codificación UTF-16 big y little endian. Si decodifica la página web utilizando el códec correcto, Python lo eliminará por usted. Ejemplos:
#!python2
#coding: utf8
u = u'ABC'
e8 = u.encode('utf-8') # encode without BOM
e8s = u.encode('utf-8-sig') # encode with BOM
e16 = u.encode('utf-16') # encode with BOM
e16le = u.encode('utf-16le') # encode without BOM
e16be = u.encode('utf-16be') # encode without BOM
print 'utf-8 %r' % e8
print 'utf-8-sig %r' % e8s
print 'utf-16 %r' % e16
print 'utf-16le %r' % e16le
print 'utf-16be %r' % e16be
print
print 'utf-8 w/ BOM decoded with utf-8 %r' % e8s.decode('utf-8')
print 'utf-8 w/ BOM decoded with utf-8-sig %r' % e8s.decode('utf-8-sig')
print 'utf-16 w/ BOM decoded with utf-16 %r' % e16.decode('utf-16')
print 'utf-16 w/ BOM decoded with utf-16le %r' % e16.decode('utf-16le')
Tenga en cuenta que EF BB BF
es una lista de materiales codificada en UTF-8. No es necesario para UTF-8, pero solo sirve como una firma (generalmente en Windows).
Salida:
utf-8 'ABC'
utf-8-sig '\xef\xbb\xbfABC'
utf-16 '\xff\xfeA\x00B\x00C\x00' # Adds BOM and encodes using native processor endian-ness.
utf-16le 'A\x00B\x00C\x00'
utf-16be '\x00A\x00B\x00C'
utf-8 w/ BOM decoded with utf-8 u'\ufeffABC' # doesn't remove BOM if present.
utf-8 w/ BOM decoded with utf-8-sig u'ABC' # removes BOM if present.
utf-16 w/ BOM decoded with utf-16 u'ABC' # *requires* BOM to be present.
utf-16 w/ BOM decoded with utf-16le u'\ufeffABC' # doesn't remove BOM if present.
Tenga en cuenta que el utf-16
códec requiere que BOM esté presente, o Python no sabrá si los datos son big-o little-endian.