Terraform configuration files must always be UTF-8 encoded. While the delimiters of the language are all ASCII characters, Terraform accepts non-ASCII characters in identifiers, comments, and string values.

Terraform accepts configuration files with either Unix-style line endings (LF only) or Windows-style line endings (CR then LF), but the idiomatic style is to use the Unix convention, and so automatic configuration formatting tools may automatically transform CRLF endings to LF.

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