![]() On Linux, the BOM is discouraged because it breaks things like shebang lines in shell scripts. On Windows, UTF-8 files often start with a "byte order mark" EF BB BF to distinguish them from ANSI files. U+FEFF ZERO WITH NO-BREAK SPACE (Byte-Order Mark) For example, if you type a file at the command prompt, it will be truncated at the first 1A byte. ![]() Windows (rarely) uses Ctrl+ Z as an end-of-file character. Problematic Special Characters U+001A SUBSTITUTE Fortunately, Notepad is capable of reading UTF-8 files unfortunately, "ANSI" encoding is still the default. It internally works in UTF-16, and assumes that char-based strings are in a legacy code page. Windows, however, lacks native support for UTF-8. Most modern (i.e., since 2004 or so) Unix-like systems make UTF-8 the default character encoding. ![]() Windows uses CRLF ( \r\n, 0D 0A) line endings while Unix just uses LF ( \n, 0A).
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