I've created a text file from an application that I developed. When I send the text file to a SYSTEM validation, they (third-party system) say that the file is invalid and that the file contains three characters in the beginning of the file that are not allowed as well special characters are not correct.

They also say I need to use either or PC850. Well, I'm using, and I can't see that at all! What is the best text file reader for these kind of problems? I also have a Mac and just thought I remembered opening in.

Now I know what they are talking about! How can I have the same in Windows? Bogus BOMs; they have no place in a UTF-8 file anyway -- that's true in most data streams and for XML/HTML files (which provide other means to specify the encoding), and for most other files, but not necessarily for all files.

Oct 7, 2017 - MS Word and pasting into the text file - but the dastardly curly quotes were still there. Into the 'find this' box, and then type a regular quote in the 'replace it with this' box. They (the straight quotes) preceded ASCII and probably EBCDIC by quite. How to handle the non-printing characters in that search. Find non-ASCII characters in a text file and convert them to their Unicode equivalent. Ask Question 6. I am importing.txt file from a remote server and saving it to a database. I use a.Net script for this purpose.

If an application needs to scan the full file to guess if something is UTF-8, then a BOM could be quite useful. How homage ups worksheets. Even though it won't define the actual byte order, it does indicate it's UTF-8.

And in this very question, the presence is actually quite nice, as it shows it's been explicitly outputted as UTF-8, not the required ISO 8859-1 or PC850.;-) – Mar 23 '10 at 14:25 •.