Tag: CloudBlockBlob

How to get rid of BOM when downloading text from azure blob

Posted by Reza Aghaei — March 7, 2018 in .NET

When you download a text content using CloudBlockBlob.DownloadText() if the blob contains the BOM or byte order mark, then the returned text will contain some additional characters. For example in case of having UTF8 with BOM, you will…

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