Plain text encoded as UTF-8 with a byte-order mark.
| 0x00000000 | EFBBBF | ··· | UTF-8 BOM |
A UTF-8 byte-order mark is an optional three-byte prefix that some Windows editors add to flag the encoding; it is invisible in most viewers but can trip up strict parsers. The BOM bytes are EF BB BF.
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