First quoted fieldname keeps quotes in key

[tanj]

A utf-8 csv file (in my case: utf-8-with-signature-dos [according to emacs]) with quoted header fields like

"column1", "column2", "column3"

Generate a fieldnames list like

[u'"column1"', u'column2', u'column3']

I would expect all of the field names to have the quote character stripped.

I'm guessing this is due to the BOM being present and messing up the process that gets the headers

[ghost]

When I stripped the BOM from the csv, the field names were correct. Now there are three people who run into this problem (see: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42991188/how-can-i-remove-the-quote-characters-from-the-first-field-name-when-unicodecsv)
In my case I intended to use the unicodecsv.DictReader but with this behavior I need to watch out for an alternative. Unfortunately I am not skilled enough to propose a solution - other than the workaround posted in the link above.