Start sequence of .qsym

[KSKelvin]

Do you have a .qsym not begin with ÿØÿÛ (FF-D8-FF-DB) can upload to forum for reference? I searched all my .qsym (566 files in totol) and all begin with ÿØÿÛ.

Here is a reason that @mgyger figured about this leading character, also with Mike explanation.

Symbol file format?

They are just regular characters ÿ Ø ÿ Û using CP1252 encoding¹ (basically Windows’ proprietary legacy ANSI² encoding for the western world). You can also leave them off (like in my additional symbols), they are just skipped, as far as I can tell. I guess they are intended as marker but unfortunately they mark a file as a corrupted JPEG outside of QSPICE (like if you want to upload the file as *.txt in this forum³). ¹ The blue text are links and readers are supposed to click them. ² I don’t kn…