UTF-8 is the de-facto standard in most modern software for saved files. More specifically, it's the most widely used encoding for HTML and configuration and translation files (Minecraft, for …

1064 The UTF-8 BOM is a sequence of bytes at the start of a text stream (0xEF, 0xBB, 0xBF) that allows the reader to more reliably guess a file as being encoded in UTF-8. Normally, the BOM …

read_csv takes an encoding option to deal with files in different formats. I mostly use read_csv('file', encoding = "ISO-8859-1"), or alternatively encoding = "utf-8" for reading, and …

Encoding basics Note: If you know how UTF-8 and UTF-16 are encoded, skip to the next section for practical applications. UTF-8: For the standard ASCII (0-127) characters, the UTF-8 codes …

UnicodeEncoding is UTF-16. The docs also describe UTF-8 is also a "Unicode encoding," which makes sense to me. But I don't yet know how to specify UTF-8 for VBA output nor be …

Yes, -Encoding ASCII avoids the BOM problem, but you obviously only get 7-bit ASCII characters. Given that ASCII is a subset of UTF-8, the resulting file is technically also a valid UTF-8 file, …

I suspect the file handler is trying to guess what you really mean based on "I'm meant to be writing Unicode as UTF-8-encoded text, but you've given me a byte string!" Try writing the Unicode …

With UTF-16 the first characther (2 bytes in UTF-16) is a Byte Order Mark (BOM), which is used as a decoding hint and doesn't appear as a character in the decoded string.

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The point of UTF-8 is to be able to encode 21-bit characters (Unicode) as an 8-bit data stream (because that's the only thing all computers in the world can handle). But since most OSs …