No, just do 8-bit clean, don't SCREW with the encoding if you weren't asked to.

gnud · on Sept 14, 2017

An editor can't "just do 8-bit clean", it has to display the characters. The same bytes will sometimes be displayed differently in utf-8 and (e.g.) ISO-8859-1.

I'm not sure if a BOM is a good way to handle it, but saying 'just do 8-bit clean' doesn't work when you're displaying or printing the characters for humans to understand.