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Authored by: thg on Jul 19, '07 11:53:26AM

There may be programs that can guess at the encoding of plain text by analysing the bytes they contain, but generally there is no way to know what the encoding is. So most apps let you select an encoding in the Open dialogue. An exception to this is plain text which has a Byte Order Mark (BOM) as the very first character. All modern apps will know that this is a form of Unicode and should interpret it correctly.



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