At present, UTF-8 character encoding is assumed for all note text as well as filenames.
All text and file handling performs [lossy conversion to Unicode strings](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/string/struct.String.html#method.from_utf8_lossy).
Use of non-UTF8 encodings may lead to issues like incorrect text replacement and failure to find linked notes.
While this may change in the future, there are no plans to change this behavior in the short term.
### Frontmatter
By default, frontmatter is copied over "as-is".
Some static site generators are picky about frontmatter and require it to be present.
Some get tripped up when Markdown files don't have frontmatter but start with a list item or horizontal rule.
In these cases, `--frontmatter=always` can be used to insert an empty frontmatter entry.
To completely remove any frontmatter from exported notes, use `--frontmatter=never`.
### Ignoring files
By default, hidden files, patterns listed in `.export-ignore` as well as any files ignored by git (if your vault is part of a git repository) will be excluded from exports.
