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02/21/17, 10:20 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by retired_adventurer View Post
If you are curious what those bytes are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark

I think the Notepad application that comes with Windows will insert those bytes if you choose UTF-8 as the encoding when saving. If you use Notepad and don't want those bytes, make sure the encoding is set to ANSI when you save. Another solution is to use a different text editor.
Thanks for that. I usually use gvim to modify everything but when editing manifests and all I'm doing is bumping the API version I usually just double-click them to open them in Notepad.

Curse you, Notepad!
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