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RE: cURL producing boxes instead of carriage return

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:08:03 +0100 (CET)

On Tue, 3 Feb 2003, hunter wrote:

> I saved you text and looked at it in hex ... the first 3 bytes are
>
> EF BB BF

This is unicode crap.

This particular combination of bytes means that this is a unicode document
using UTF-8 encoding.

For further reading and other "byte order marks" etc, check this out:

        http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/userguide/unicodeBasics.html

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