srchmeister - 9:35 pm on Jun 16, 2011 (gmt 0)

Thanks for the heads-up lucy24 and the great link you mentioned.

I've since found that many of my co-workers have their editors (Eclipse) set to use a number of character sets by default other than UTF-8 so at least this exercise will have one useful outcome.

From the article you linked to it seems that the BOM is unnecessary for UTF-8 in any case so I will probably avoid it and find another workaround... like remove the meta tag as mentioned in the original article.