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The access to a OneDrive file via the browser does not give one a chance to state that the file is in fact in UTF-8. When the file is opened in Excel, the software asks for confirmation that the file ...

If the files are utf-8, the filesystem isn't going to care. Whatever application you use to look at the files just needs to interpret them as utf-8.

What are the actual bytes in the file? Could the text viewer you're using be interpreting UTF-8 as something else?

A Google Groups thread shows the tail of a webmaster who had issues with his robots.txt file. The robots.txt file was uploaded in what is called byte-order mark (BOM) encoding, which threw off ...