I have now changed the doc to be accurate about this
in commit 27c74dfd9a73dc0baa42c9e37899f741b08b7c4b
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Karl Williamson
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via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121292
[perl #121292] perlunicode claims about a UTF-8 BOM in perl sourceare incorrect
by Karl Williamson via RT