Why some CSV files have these weird characters  in the first line column

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#1

Just wondering. Some CSV files have it, some don’t. Should that be removed? Does it batter if it is there? I use MacOS, is this related to Windows?

#2

It may be a BOM (byte order mark) used to give a hint that the file has Unicode text encoding:

Generally Easy Data Transform will handle BOMs without you knowing about it.

If you don’t want to output a BOM then uncheck Byte Order Mark when you are writing to a file.

Does that help?

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