What Does UTF-8 With BOM Mean? 11.12.2012 Believe it or not, There is no such thing as Plain Text! All files in a modern Operating Sytems (Windows, Linux, or MacOSX) are saved with an encoding scheme! They are encoded (a table mapping of what each byte means) in such way so that other programs can read it back and understand how to get information out. It happens that US/ASCII encoding is earliest and widely used that people think it's just "Plain Tex". But even ASCII is an encoding!
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