++ Excellent reply.

When you convert it as shown above, however, the output file will have a BOM (presumably because it's then converted just like any other codepoint), which is recommended on Windows.

Recommended by whom? Microsoft Corp.?

I don't like BOMs in UTF-8 files on any platform. A BOM in a text file that is otherwise all ASCII kills its backward compatibility with so-called "legacy" software, which is a big part of the raison d'être of the UTF-8 encoding form. In my experience, most modern applications that understand Unicode will figure out the UTF-8-ness of a BOM-less text file, whereas almost no legacy software will tolerate a BOM in an ASCII file.

See this entry and following ones in the Unicode UTF/BOM FAQ.

Jim

In reply to Re^2: Getting Data from an Excel File by Jim
in thread Getting Data from an Excel File by mrguy123

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