Everything about Byte order mark
Unicode character
The byte order mark (BOM) is a particular usage of the special Unicode character code, U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE, whose appearance as a magic number at the start of a text stream can signal several things to a program reading the text:the byte order, or endianness, of the text stream in the cases of 16-bit and 32-bit encodings; the fact that the text stream's encoding is Unicode, to a high level of confidence; which Unicode character encoding is used. Wikipedia →
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Noun A character indicating the endianness of a string of text. The Unicode character U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE.
Noun The Unicode character U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE.
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The Video Games GuideMatt Fox · 2006
Programming With UnicodeVictor Stinner · 2011- 📕ASHP's informatics pearlsMichael D. Schlesselman, Bonnie Levin · 2008
- 📕The WTO, intellectual property, e-commerce, and the InternetRohan Kariyawasam · 2009
Foundations of computer scienceBehrouz A. Forouzan · 2002
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