Thank you Edward.
The problem seems to be I need the text in utf-8 with BOM, and Leo creates
the files without BOM. (learnt about its existence right now)
And cant seem to find the utf-8 with BOM encoding name.
I have tried the wikipedia UTF-8-BOM and BOM and some others, but Leo
always gives
I brought forward the model used by calibre as a possible way forward for
Leo installations for novice users. I reiterate that this provides a
one-click installer and an application that will work out of the box, every
time with all features fully enabled instead of expecting novices to hunt
