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   
      
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