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Question

I have a text file and it uses utf-8, but when users see it in ANSI unknown characters, they appear at the very beginning. I am using C #.

Thanks.

Answer 1

This is a byte byte character. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark

A Byte Order Sign (BOM) is a Unicode character used to endianness (byte order) a text file or stream.