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convertTextEncoding.sh
# When you receive "warning: null character(s) ignore", there is a null byte hidden number in the source code.
# This is likely the result of creating a file in Visual Studio which defaults to UTF-16LE and trying to read
# it back as UTF8.
# To check text encoding of the file, run the following and retrieve the `charset`
file -I [FILE]
# To convert the file to UTF8 (or any other encoding)
iconv -f [CURRENT_ENCODING] -t UTF8 [FILE] > temp
mv temp [FILE]
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also, dos2unix

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