Sample text file: UTF-8 with BOM, CRLF line endings Free sample from 99helpers.com/file-types/txt This file starts with a byte order mark (BOM), the three bytes EF BB BF. Every line ends with a carriage return and a line feed (bytes 0D 0A). That is the style Windows tools have often used. What to check: - An editor should not show the BOM as a character. If the first line starts with "", the program read the BOM as Windows-1252 text. - A Unix tool such as cat -A shows each line ending as ^M$. - Accented text should read correctly: Café, Zürich, Ærøskøbing, São Paulo. - Symbols: € £ ¥ © ® ™ ° ± × ÷ ½ Last line, followed by CRLF.