Okay.  This appears to be the case for this Poser 5 file as well (there is no BOM).  But then he mentions troubles between Windows and Mac, Japanese Kana/Kanji in previous versions.  This seems to implicate that earlier versions used a variety of formats - but I see possible UTF-16 (but this could be S-JIS or some other encoding - getting lucky?).  This will make it difficult to cover a variety of situations where non-ASCII characters are in use...

Let me know if you bump into anything else.
Thanks,
Robert

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