# Failure to write BOM

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/failure-to-write-bom/6081
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 16, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/failure-to-write-bom/6081 "2008-01-16T22:24:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/failure-to-write-bom/6081/1 "2008-01-16T22:24:06Z")

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I have Tools | Options... | Export, [X] Write BOM yet File | Export is not writing a BOM to .txt files. Any ideas?

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2008, 10:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/failure-to-write-bom/6081/2 "2008-01-17T10:48:43Z")

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What encoding are you using? -\> $filename(test.txt,Encoding)  
How do you know there is no BOM?

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### Author: ![chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2008, 11:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/failure-to-write-bom/6081/3 "2008-01-17T11:41:14Z")

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> What encoding are you using?

The default.

> $filename(test.txt,Encoding)

There no $filename in the config file.

> How do you know there is no BOM?

Hex editor shows none.

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2008, 11:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/failure-to-write-bom/6081/4 "2008-01-17T11:55:29Z")

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Ok it seems if you do not use $filename() in your config you get no BOM.

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### Author: ![chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2008, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/failure-to-write-bom/6081/5 "2008-01-17T12:21:09Z")

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Thanks for the confirmation.

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### Author: ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/failure-to-write-bom/6081/6 "2026-02-09T12:20:43Z")

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