What causes 3 special characters after conversion to UTF-8?
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One of our work steps involves saving an MS Excel worksheet as CSV and then using UltraEdit to convert the CSV to UTF-8 before importing it into a server system. The problem is that, after the conversion to UTF-8, the file always contains 3 nonsense characters at the start of the file: ENTITY_ID…
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That's the byte order mark, encoded as UTF-8. Tell your editor to not add it at the beginning, or use a real decoder in your server system.
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