Hi, A long time ago, Hans wrote:

Patrick Gundlach wrote:

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are you sure that your scite does not use utf-16 and puts the BOM (byte order mark) there?

scite indeed does this (kind of annoying)

It is the BOM, in utf-8 file encoding. A bit pointless (utf-8 is based on opcodes instead of byte ordering), but is allowed by the unicode specification.

context can handle that for xml files

i can consider handling it automatically (i.e. when BOM before first start-stop, then assume utf-8)

It is a safe bet that any document that starts with the three bytes 0xEF 0xBB 0xBF is encoded as UTF-8, esp. if it is supposed to be text input. Cheers, Taco