Test files › Documents › utf8-with-bom.txt
Sample TXT file
UTF-8 with a leading BOM (EF BB BF).
↓ Download utf8-with-bom.txt| Filename | utf8-with-bom.txt |
| Format | TXT |
| Size | 102 bytes (102 bytes) |
| MIME type | text/plain; charset=utf-8 |
| SHA-256 | ac0d490b3c84d5f8e830a7860f3f9c96846a92021d9b124a97bef0cfd021391d |
What this file catchesParsers that treat the BOM as content — the classic cause of a stray "" before the first CSV header and of JSON.parse failing on a file that looks perfectly valid in an editor.
Download & verify
curl -fsSL -o "utf8-with-bom.txt" "https://files.hexaqa.com/text/utf8-with-bom.txt"
curl -fsSL "https://files.hexaqa.com/text/utf8-with-bom.txt" | sha256sum
# expect: ac0d490b3c84d5f8e830a7860f3f9c96846a92021d9b124a97bef0cfd021391d