Hello Kees,

On Saturday February 21 2015 17:06, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

 KE> From what I have seen and read, the BOM is used as a marker for
 KE> Notepad to switch to UTF-8 when the file is openend.

It will switch to UTF-8 mode if the first non ASCII character it sees is
encoded in UTF-8. This could be the BOM or any other UTF-8 encoded
character.

 KE>  When a file is saved as a UTF-8 file the BOM is put into the first 2
 KE> positions of the file.

The first three bytes.


Cheers, Michiel

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