[Biopython-dev] Newick Parser

[Peter Cock]

Hi Nigel,

On Saturday, September 28, 2013, Nigel Delaney wrote:

> I had a couple questions on the newick parser I was hoping someone might
> know the answer to.
>
> First, it fails when there are BOMs in the file, though in general it seems
> that UTF encoding with BOMs should be allowed.  Is there a standard way
> that
> BOM in files are handled in biopython?
>

You mean a Unicode byte order mark (BOM)?

Does it even make sense to allow non-ASCII in Newick format?

Peter