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But something still seems not logical to me because the document class is based on file extension so if I check the use UTF BOM box in class preferences, all my text files will be prefixed with the BOM and it's really not what it should be, dont you think ? Or i should make a new document class ...

No, I didn't check , because i thought it would be a option to check in the save window. Sorry and thanks for your advice.

When you clic save as and choose the UTF8 option in the code section, textpad actually encode special character in UTF-8 format BUT doesn't prefix the UTF-8 stream with the character U+FEFF (ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE), or Byte-Order Mark (BOM). Some programs like flash (and maybe others...) won't ...