Make UTF-8 the mandatory GTFS encoding about transit HOT 6 CLOSED

It seems to be already in.

"Files should be encoded in UTF-8 to support all Unicode characters. Files that include the Unicode byte-order mark (BOM) character are acceptable. See http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#BOM for more information on the BOM character and UTF-8."

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I think this is a really good idea.

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I, too, do agree.

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Perhaps we can also add the BOM and then have the encoding "UTF-8-SIG"

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I think that will cause issues with direct database loading of csv files.

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e.g. with yes, because the csv-reader does not handle the BOM correctly.

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