

It is a character in a string which represents a line break, which means that after this character, a new line will start. Lower right of Notepad++ will clearly state the ASCII / UTF mode and if it is setup as a Windows or UNIX file format for that file, which that and looking at the hex directly makes it a lot easier to double check during troubleshooting.
Big endian (BE) might be FF 01 02 03 and little endian (LE) might be 03 02 01 FF but the data is otherwise "the same".Īnyway, it does show how to easily check for this in Notepad++ if hex isn't your preference (though trivially easy in UNIX with hexdump). Doesn't go into the different little or big endian ones as much though or how UTF-8 is different than UTF-16 and how UTF-16 has little and big endian types. Here is a helpful guide on the EOL character differences.
