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Loading fails on files which contain a UTF-8 Byte Order Marker #19

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YenTheFirst opened this issue Mar 12, 2015 · 0 comments

YenTheFirst commented Mar 12, 2015

Some feeds start with a BOM, which is allowable per the GTFS spec. For example, http://gtfs.s3.amazonaws.com/addison-county-transit-resources_20150227_0141.zip, stops.txt, starts with a BOM.

Attempting to load this feed causes an exception:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\ufeff' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

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