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Originally Posted by GeoffR
Although Wordpad preserves the line breaks, I think it adds a useless byte order mark when saving ASCII files, which means they are no longer ASCII files. This can trip up programs that expect plain ASCII input. |
OK, I didn't know that. I have used WordPad to edit Unix-style text files a few times in the past without mishap, but better safe than sorry. Notepad++ it is then (it's my default text editor anyway, nowadays).