WriteLinesToFile Does Not Support BOM Customization #6168
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The WriteLinesToFile task uses UTF-8 encoding without BOM (byte order mark) by default. This is not specified in the documentation and could be useful to have control over.
The difficulty is allowing control over the optional
Encoding
parameter and control over the BOM without adding a special case for every single encoding.Some options I sent in the internal thread that started this issue:
Let's discuss what potential solutions there are before implementing an improvement.
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