In the latest Windows 10 Insider build, Microsoft has released a new version of Notepad that includes changes ... New UTF-8 without BOM option A BOM is Unicode character that some text editors ...

copy it from your Notepad document and paste it in the desired location. If you attempt to save a Unicode document in an ANSI format, Windows warns that you will lose your Unicode formatting if ...

I eventually twigged to what was going on and found some way to get rid of the BOM ... compounded by Microsoft coding Notepad (probably Windows' entire Unicode subsystem, if I'm being fair ...