UTF-8 BOM Text Encoding

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Before Unicode became standard, text files and string data were encoded in different 8-bit based code pages, each different between Germany, Spain, Italy, Sweden, etc. Nowadays, UTF-8 is the mostly used standard for sending text in network communication and when saving text data to files.

UTF-8 encoded text files have a prefix that defines that the file is encoded in UTF-8. It is called a BOM (byte order mark). Use the .Net framework to determine the sequence for the UTF-8 BOM.

Examples

GetUTF8BOM() ➞ { 0xef, 0xbb, 0xbf } (byte array)

Notes

Use the class UTF8Encoding in the System.Text namespace.

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