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I am about to create a robots.txt file.
I am using notepad.
How should I save the file? UTF8, ANSI or what?
Also, should it be a capital R?
And in the file, I am specifying a sitemap location. Should this be with a capital S?
User-agent: *
Sitemap: http://www.domain.se/sitemap.xml
Thanks
Since the file should consist of only ASCII characters, it normally doesn’t matter if you save it as ANSI or UTF-8.
However, you should choose ANSI if you have a choice because when you save a file as UTF-8, notepad adds the Unicode Byte Order Mark to the front of the file, which may make the file unreadable for interpreters that only know ASCII.