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Date: 2007Jan12

Q.  What are those weird binary bytes at the start of my XML file?

A.  They indicate the encoding of the file.
The common encoding are: UTF-7, UTF-8, UTF-16 Little or Big Endian.
Since all our files are UTF-8 this is unnecessary and it may even confuse some programs.

More Info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark

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