Subj : unicode test
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Tommi Koivula
Date : Mon Feb 27 2023 08:39 pm

Hello, Michiel van der Vlist.
On 27/02/2023 14.00 you wrote:

 MV> Hello Chris,
 MV> On Monday February 27 2023 02:39, you wrote to me:
 MvV>>> Notepad handles UTF-8 quit well but the last time I tried it as
 MvV>>> external editor for Golded it insisted on adding a BOM to the
 MvV>>> message text. That was many years ago so maybe newer versions of
 MvV>>> notepad do not do that anymore. Adding or using a BOM in UTF-8
 MvV>>> text is considered obsolete practise.
 CJ>> Here, on Windos 11, Notepad does not require a BOM.
 MV> My point was not that Notepad requires a BOM, but that it adds a BOM.

Try Notepad++. It works pretty fine as an external editor in GoldED.

 MV> Cheers, Michiel
 MV> --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 17.1.5-b20170303
 MV>  * Origin: Nieuw Schnøørd (2:280/5555)

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 Tommi  🇫🇮

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