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		Daniel_Newby on April 1, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stop using Windows Notepad Does cat really? The BOM character just happens to also be the "zero-width non-breaking space", so it should be invisible when printed.

rbanffy on April 1, 2010 [–]

Despite running under a form of Unix, my iPod is crippled in that I cannot run a "cat nasty_notepad_corrupted_file.txt | od" to check.

Should be simple.

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