Houston Chronicle

UTF-8 Encoding for Excel Using Java

Typically, using standard formats when programming can help you migrate information between different programs. Using the Comma Separated Value file format, for example, lets you create lists of data ...
Android Police

Comma Separated Values: Which CSV encoding should I use?

Zach was an Author at Android Police from January 2022 to June 2025. He specialized in Chromebooks, Android smartphones, Android apps, smart home devices, and Android services. Zach loves unique and ...
Bleeping Computer

Windows 10 Notepad is Getting Better UTF-8 Encoding Support

In the latest Windows 10 Insider build, Microsoft has released a new version of Notepad that includes changes that bring it closer to what we have come to expect from modern text file editors. These ...
Houston Chronicle

Setting Outlook to Use UTF-8

Many of the fonts included with Microsoft Windows have support for languages with non-Latin characters such as Hebrew, Greek and Arabic. However, you must configure Outlook 2010 to use Unicode UTF-8 ...
Ars Technica

(.NET) Incorrect Byte Order Mark in UTF-8 XML doc

I am having a problem .NET's System.Xml.XmlTextWriter object. Namely, there are extra characters in the Byte Order Mark (BOM) of the file after it is written.<BR><BR>Even tho I am specifying that the ...