DataMystic

I am trying to replace certain entities with their characters in UTF8 text e.g & #171; -> « When I use a simple replace filter on my files, the character TextPipe puts is the iso-8859-1 version - I know this becuse if I open the file as UTF8, the character inserted is an invisible control charac...

Thanks Simon - much appreciated.

Keith

Hi Simon, The first three bytes of the file are indeed EF BB BF. Looking at the help for the Remove Unicode BOM filter it says: This filter removes the Unicode Byte Order Mark from the start of Unicode files, if it is present EF BB BF UTF-8. But when I run this filter on the same file, and then look...

Although I've read in this forum that UTF8 does not need a BOM since there's only one order, Microsoft Office XP and up annoyingly puts a BOM in each UTF8 file it creates. I had hoped I could remove these using TextPipe Pro, but they're still there afer I use the Remove BOM filter. Is there some oth...