Issue #14452: remove BOM insertion code.

Lib/logging/handlers.py

@@ -821,8 +821,6 @@ class SysLogHandler(logging.Handler):
         # Message is a string. Convert to bytes as required by RFC 5424
         if type(msg) is unicode:
             msg = msg.encode('utf-8')
-            if codecs:
-                msg = codecs.BOM_UTF8 + msg
         msg = prio + msg
         try:
             if self.unixsocket:

Misc/NEWS

@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- Issue #14452: SysLogHandler no longer inserts a UTF-8 BOM into the message.
+
 - Issue #13496: Fix potential overflow in bisect.bisect algorithm when applied
   to a collection of size > sys.maxsize / 2.