Subj : Feature request To : Kees van Eeten From : Michiel van der Vlist Date : Fri Jul 27 2018 01:25:03 Hello Kees, On Saturday February 21 2015 17:06, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen: KE> From what I have seen and read, the BOM is used as a marker for KE> Notepad to switch to UTF-8 when the file is openend. It will switch to UTF-8 mode if the first non ASCII character it sees is encoded in UTF-8. This could be the BOM or any other UTF-8 encoded character. KE> When a file is saved as a UTF-8 file the BOM is put into the first 2 KE> positions of the file. The first three bytes. Cheers, Michiel --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20130111 * Origin: http://www.vlist.eu (2:280/5555) .