Reply to post: what about the BOM?

Windows Notepad fixed after 33 years: Now it finally handles Unix, Mac OS line endings

stephanh

what about the BOM?

I would say that a much more annoying issue with Notepad is that it insists on marking a UTF-8 file with a BOM ("byte-order marker"). Many text-processing tools choke on this BOM. In contrast, most Unix tools handle CRLF transparently.

Wish that Microsoft had done what Apple does and just included Vim in the base system.

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