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Convert UTF-8 to UTF-8-SIG/UTF-8-BOM

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Posted on by MN-13081357-0 72
Hello everyone,
 
I was exporting a csv file using outstream in Business Central with textencoding::UTF-08. Now I want textencoding::UTF-08-SIG or textencoding::UTF-08-BOM but I don't know how to do that. Can anyone please help?
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    OussamaSabbouh 11,382 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    Hello,
     
    BC doesn’t have UTF8-BOM, so you just write the BOM bytes yourself before writing the CSV:
     
    // Write UTF-8 BOM manually
    var bom: array[3] of Byte;
    bom[1] := 239; // EF
    bom[2] := 187; // BB
    bom[3] := 191; // BF
    OutStr.Write(bom);
     
    // Then write your text normally (UTF8)
    OutStr.WriteText(MyCsvText);
     
    That produces UTF-8 with BOM (UTF-8-SIG).
     
    Regards,
    Oussama Sabbouh

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