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Re:Visual Studio Code 1.0 by coldtea on Friday April 15, 2016 @07:26AM (#11503463)
>and changing UTF encoding or line endings

If you need to do those things often, there are specialized tools, including in the command line, and for batch processing.

No need to do it in an editor.

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Re:Visual Studio Code 1.0 by jsingleton on Friday April 15, 2016 @08:00AM (#11503598)
I don't need to do this often but occasionally you'll need to fix inconsistent line endings, change encoding to UTF-8 or remove a BOM [0] (to stop  being prefixed by some old software).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark

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Re:Visual Studio Code 1.0 by coldtea on Friday April 15, 2016 @12:19PM (#11505481)
Yeah, I know, had to do it some time or another.

In OS X and Linux (and Windows with Cygwin etc) there are several command line programs such as unix2dos (line ending conversion), iconv (encoding conversions) etc for doing just that, so that you don't need to do it in an editor and can even automate the work.

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