[Feature Request]: `WriteLinesToFile` should support specifying a UTF8 encoding that doesn't write a BOM
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Description
### Summary
`WriteLinesToFile` accepts an `Encoding` metadata that is a name that's passed to `System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding`. There is no BCL name for `UTF-8 with no BOM`, so users cannot easily request files be written in this encoding.
### Background and Motivation
BOMs are not generally considered good things to require these days, and many systems (especially those that interact with Linux hosts/tools) have moved away from them because said tools don't handle BOMs well.
We should at least have a supported and documented way to skip BOM emission.
### Proposed Feature
We should support a string like `UTF8-no-bom` or similar for the `Encoding` metadata of the `WriteLinesToFile` Task so that users have an accepted way to write without BOMs. And/or the runtime should provide a named lookup that does the same.
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