From 19cff44ec1b8eeec99459b504a681aa440f6344c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eduardo Rodrigues <eduardo.rodrigues@sentia.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2019 22:14:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix response with utf8 bom

---
 requests/models.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/requests/models.py b/requests/models.py
index 62dcd0b7c8..4eb52d9496 100644
--- a/requests/models.py
+++ b/requests/models.py
@@ -855,6 +855,9 @@ def text(self):
         # Fallback to auto-detected encoding.
         if self.encoding is None:
             encoding = self.apparent_encoding
+        # Forcefully remove BOM from UTF-8
+        elif self.encoding.lower() == 'utf-8':
+            encoding = 'utf-8-sig'
 
         # Decode unicode from given encoding.
         try: