A file with the first three bytes 0xEF0xBB0xBF is probably a UTF-8 encoded file.

What is text file encoding. VS Code manages the interface between a human entering strings of characters into a buffer and readingwriting blocks of bytes to the filesystem. For some other encoding use the code page identifier which you can find in the Text Import Wizard in Excel or in this listClick OK. However it might be an ISO-8859-1 file which happens to start with the characters ï.

Change default encoding file origin of Text. That means for example a text saved as UTF-8 that only contains simple latin characters it would be identical to the same file saved as ASCII. To ensure this we would add some meta info like checksum that.

What is file encoding and why is it important. Some encodings have invalid byte sequences so its possible to rule them out for sure. This may come into effect eg on east asian.

Files with this encoding can be displayed correctly in text editors with automatic detection of character encoding like Notepad on most Windos installations world wide. For more information see about_Character_Encoding. Example while transferring data over wire internet we would want to make sure the above example json reach the other side correctly should not be corrupted.

Scheme is specific to the purpose of encoding. There are many examples here. In its most basic sense encoding is the way that a computer reads and displays a file in a way that humans can understand.

The 8 means it uses 8-bit blocks to represent a character. When you open a file that contains this character on a computer that uses the Cyrillic Windows encoding the computer reads the 201 numeric value and displays Й on the screen. Only files that have a fixed record length are seekable.