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 ...
InfoWorld

Java source code could switch to UTF-8 encoding

UTF-8, the byte-oriented encoding form of Unicode that is considered the web’s standard for character encoding, was designated the default charset of standard Java APIs, with the release of JDK 18 in ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Make Sure Your Robots.txt File is UTF-8

A Google Groups thread shows the tail of a webmaster who had issues with his robots.txt file. The robots.txt file was uploaded in what is called byte-order mark (BOM) encoding, which threw off Google, ...
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 ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Google Does Crawl & Index UTF-8 Encoded URLs

A Google Groups thread asks if Google can crawl and index UTF-8 encoded URLs. The quick answer is yes, Google can crawl and index these URLs. Google's JohnMu provided a link to the Google search ...