Notepad++ visibility for BOM

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How to use the 6.2.3 version of Notepad++.I want to know how to make visible of BOM chanracters.I tried with menu list available but no use.

But those characters are available only at Linux Environment.If we use vi editor.

sunleo

Posted 2013-11-25T10:40:32.473

Reputation: 173

https://sourceforge.net/p/notepad-plus/feature-requests/2522/ – Abdull – 2014-09-20T08:40:36.913

Answers

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I don't know what you want to achieve so this may be irrelevant, but you could always use a hex editor to see and edit the raw representation of your file.

nitro2k01

Posted 2013-11-25T10:40:32.473

Reputation: 2 259

2There is the HEX-Editor plugin for Notepad++. – Abdull – 2014-09-20T08:40:10.750

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Following up from Abdull's comment above was able to view ff fe or ÿþ as the Unicode big endian (BE) byte order mark in the N++ hex plugin for N++ (v6.88). Once the plugin is installed click Plugins > View in Hex.

Laurie Stearn

Posted 2013-11-25T10:40:32.473

Reputation: 344

As a side note you should be looking for ef bb bf (characters ) in UTF-8 – Laurent B – 2017-07-06T10:23:37.850

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As far as I know, you can't show/visualize the BOM in Notepad++.

The menu View > Show Symbol > Show All Characters doesn't include the 0xFEFF character.

psxls

Posted 2013-11-25T10:40:32.473

Reputation: 370

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vim (in either textual or graphic mode) can show all control characters if you :set list. The BOM is a special case, controlled by the :set bomb or :set nobomb commands.

Copied from here, thank you Alex Martelli.

faidherbard

Posted 2013-11-25T10:40:32.473

Reputation: 121

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Please read How to reference material written by others. I've fixed the quoting for you.

– DavidPostill – 2015-10-29T22:57:04.187

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