UTF-8 File Validator
UTF-8 File Validator: Check UTF-8 validity and inspect BOM, character count, and newline styles in a local text file.
UTF-8 File Validator
UTF-8 File Validator: Select a plain UTF-8 text file to check its bytes, character count and the number of LF, CRLF and CR line endings.
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How to use UTF-8 File Validator
Select a plain UTF-8 text file to check its bytes, character count and the number of LF, CRLF and CR line endings.
Example
An English source file with Windows line endings might show 12 CRLF lines and no standalone LF line endings.
What to know
Files larger than 8 MB, malformed UTF-8 and files containing NUL bytes are rejected. This tool does not convert other encodings.