What was the file encoding? about countriestocitiesjson HOT 5 CLOSED

it should be utf8

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Theres weird characters sometimes, and there are some weird characters at the start of the file: ��{"China , also hundreds of the cities have weird characters like this - Ngaoundéré

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Same issue for me even though I change the encoding to UTF-8. Maybe it's the github manipulating the characters

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for those who have problem with the encoding, this question had the solution for me (Java but can be used as base to other languages):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/887148/how-to-determine-if-a-string-contains-invalid-encoded-characters

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Well, this JSON was pretty much neglected by me.
The characters issue is basically Windows' BOM. give me a few days to rearrange this JSON

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