]) unless $header;
}
+ # Special case: utf8 BOM.
+ # certain software (namely MS Office and notepad.exe insist on prefixing
+ # data with a discouraged but valid byte order mark
+ # if not removed, the first header field will not be recognized
+ if ($header && $header->[0] && $self->encoding =~ /utf-?8/i) {
+ $header->[0] =~ s/^\x{FEFF}//;
+ }
+
return unless $header;
return $self->header([ map { lc } @$header ]);
}