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Excel's Hidden BOM Characters Break JSON Imports – Here's the Fix
Microsoft Excel's default CSV export adds a Byte Order Mark (BOM) that causes parsing errors in JSON and web services. The BOM is an invisible character sequence that standard parsers treat as syntax errors. Developers can fix this in Python by using the 'utf-8-sig' encoding to strip the BOM automatically.
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