Sample text file: Windows-1252 (legacy "ANSI" encoding) Free sample from 99helpers.com/file-types/txt This file is NOT UTF-8. Each character is exactly one byte, using the Windows-1252 code page that Western-European Windows used for years. Line endings are CRLF. Opened as Windows-1252 (or "Western"), these read correctly: Café crème, naïve, Zürich, Ærøskøbing, São Paulo, Ångström Price: €12.50 (the euro sign is byte 80) Quotes: ‘single’ and “double” (bytes 91 92 93 94) Dash and ellipsis: – — … Opened as UTF-8, those bytes are invalid, so most programs show replacement characters (a question mark in a black diamond) instead. That is the classic sign of a file in an old 8-bit encoding.