If you look at the bytes inside a file saved from Microsoft WordPad as a Unicode Text Document, there is a BOM character, that is a ZWNBSP character, at the start of the file so as to show in which order the 8-bit bytes of the 16-bit UTF-16characters are stored, that is whether they are stored as HI LO HI LO HI LO … or LO HI LO HI LO HI … . In fact they are stored as LO HI LO HI LO HI … by WordPad.
Such looking at the bytes inside the file can be carried out using the ViewHex program that Erwin kindly made available in this forum.
William