UTF-8 without BOM

Question

Hello everybody! 
 Does anyone found a way to save generate xliff target files UTF-8 without BOM ? 
 Is there any other way to solve this encoding problem other than to manually open the final xliff 2.0 file in Notepad and changing it? 
 I have read about this issue is known to SDL at least since 2005. At the moment I am using 2021, but it never really caused problems to me. Until now. J 
 I will work on 200 files in the next few days, I am so disappointed with Studio regarding this, and the length issue, that generates an error too.

I will be very happy to learn if anyone found a solution to this issue. ;) 
 
 Warm regards, Neila

Paul · Answer

neila carneiro 
 neila carneiro said: I have read about this issue is known to SDL at least since 2005. 
 That would put it before the development of Trados Studio, so a long standing problem indeed. I think the most common solution to these problems is to add a BOM to the files before preparing them for translation. This is fairly trivial to do and normally avoids the issue of there being an incorrect encoding in the target file. XLIFF files are normally assumed to be UTF-8 if the encoding is missing, but I guess you don't really mean XLIFF files as the file in question in your screenshot was an XLSX. So you are probably referring to changing the encoding in an SDLXLIFF which I have never had to do... as far as I can recall. 
 I can't recall having this problem myself with Excel files either, and your language pair doesn't look problematic. Importing into Excel can be tricky as Excel isn't that great at handling some languages, but perhaps you can share a source file, or at least a sample of one, so we can test?

Paul · Answer

neila carneiro 
 I think I already answered these questions in my original comment. But feel free to ask which parts you don't understand specifically? 
 On the File Encoding Converter. This is now available on the Private AppStore we published this afternoon. 
 You can find a wiki here that explains how to get set up to use the Private AppStore: 
 community.rws.com/.../private-appstore 
 The FEC application is free, and it's a very comprehensive application as you'll see.

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UTF-8 without BOM