I have converted a .txt file from ASCII to UTF-8 using UltraEdit. However, I am not sure how to verify if it is in UTF-8 format in Windows environment.
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I have converted a .txt file from ASCII to UTF-8 using UltraEdit. However, I am not sure how to verify if it is in UTF-8 format in Windows environment.
Thank you!
Text files in Windows don’t have a format. There’s an unofficial convention that if the file starts with the BOM codepoint in UTF-8 format that it’s UTF-8, but that convention isn’t universally supported. That would be the 3 byte sequence
"\xef\xbf\xbe", i.e.￾in the Latin-1 character set.