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thomas
thomas

Reputation: 23

When viewing my readme data on NPM, there's a � between every character

I'm new to npm and node in general, just a hobbyist. I wanted to get my head around creating, publishing and using a module through npm.

I made a tiny math library: https://www.npmjs.com/package/thombsaway-maths

Here's the repo so you can see how README.md renders there: https://github.com/Thomas-Elder/hobby.node.maths

I imagine it's some encoding issue, I guess? I'm on Windows 10, writing in vscode.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 87

Answers (1)

Gama11
Gama11

Reputation: 34138

I imagine it's some encoding issue, I guess?

That seems very likely - I downloaded the README.md from your repository, and it uses the UTF-16 LE encoding, which is less common than the almost universally used UTF-8. VSCode displays this information in the status bar:

You can click this button to change the encoding. Select Save with Encoding in the popup menu and then UTF-8.

Upvotes: 2

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