txt106 B
Windows-1252 Text
A Windows-1252 text file using the 0x80–0x9F range (smart quotes, em dash, euro, bullet) that naive Latin-1 decoders get wrong — for testing codepage detection and transcoding.
Preview — first 4 linestxt
Windows-1252 (CP1252) sample.
Smart quotes: �curly� �single� � em dash, bullet �.
Euro � and trademark �.
Specifications
- Encoding
- Windows-1252 (CP1252)
- Line Endings
- LF
- Has BOM
- false
- Bytes
- 106
What is a .txt file?
TXT is a plain-text file containing unformatted character data with no styling or structure beyond line breaks. Its interpretation depends on character encoding, most commonly UTF-8, and on line-ending convention. It is the most universal and portable text container.
How to use this file
Use an example TXT to test encoding detection, line-ending (LF versus CRLF) handling, and any tool that reads or streams raw text input.
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