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...

surrogates (6 bytes instead of 4) is called CESU-8. If the Unicode byte-order mark U+FEFF is at the start of a UTF-8 file, the first three bytes will be 0xEF...

since the byte-order mark includes all of the information necessary for processing applications. In most circumstances, the byte-order mark character...

text file or stream, the byte order mark (BOM) U+FEFF hints at the encoding form and its byte order. If the stream's first byte is 0xFE and the second 0xFF...

In computing, endianness is the order in which bytes within a word of digital data are transmitted over a data communication medium or addressed (by rising...

other forms: 0000 0000 1010 0011 ≡ 0x00A3 ≡ 16310 A byte order mark (BOM) is an optional special byte sequence at the very start of a stream or file that...

browsers. WebVTT's first line starts with WEBVTT after the optional UTF-8 byte order mark There is space for optional header data between the first line and...

byte order mark in POSIX (Unix-like) scripts, for this reason and for wider interoperability and philosophical concerns. Additionally, a byte order mark...

of zero width. The ZWNBSP is originally and currently used as the byte order mark (BOM) at the start of a file. However, if encountered elsewhere, it...

content of a file. Such signatures are also known as magic numbers or magic bytes and are usually appended at the beginning of the file. Many file formats...

require UTF encodings to explicitly label the document with a prefixed byte order mark (BOM). International Components for Unicode – a library that can perform...

computer architecture. To assist in recognizing the byte order of code units, UTF-16 allows a byte order mark (BOM), a code point with the value U+FEFF, to...

(Windows 2000 or later) Before Windows 10, Notepad always inserted a byte order mark character at the start of the file. Since Windows 10, the BOM has been...

uses big endian byte ordering, so the magic number is 4D 4D 00 2A. Unicode text files encoded in UTF-16 often start with the Byte Order Mark to detect endianness...

software within the same system. For Unicode, one solution is to use a byte order mark, but many parsers do not tolerate this for source code or other machine-readable...

a file is a byte order mark, making it impossible for other software to use UTF-8 without being rewritten to ignore the byte order mark on input and...

of bytes long. Save the file as "UTF-8" (before 2018) or "UTF-8 with BOM" (after 2018) rather than "ANSI". This prepends a UTF-8 byte order mark which...

require a Byte Order Mark. Notepad can now recognize UTF-8 without the Byte Order Mark, and can be told to write UTF-8 without a Byte Order Mark.[citation...

specify the Unicode byte order mark (BOM) for use at the beginnings of text files, which may be used for byte-order detection (or byte endianness detection)...

UTF-16 Unicode Transformation Format. Such files normally begin with byte order mark (BOM), which communicates the endianness of the file content. Although...

sequences � and , which are the Unicode replacement character and byte order mark, respectively, in UTF-8 misinterpreted as ISO-8859-1 or CP1252 (both...

U+FEFF is a Unicode character with two meanings: Byte order mark, previously used as zero-width no-break space Word joiner, Unicode character U+2060,...

well Unicode encodings, such as UTF-8 and UTF-16, with or without byte order mark (BOM). Therefore, there is no official character encoding standard...

explicit meta tag within the first 1024 bytes of the document A byte order mark (BOM) within the first three bytes of the document The HTTP Content-Type...

horizontal tab, line feed, and carriage return. In particular, the byte order mark must not be generated by a conforming implementation (though it may...

packages Browser Object Model, the objects exposed by a Web browser Byte order mark (U+FEFF and others), a Unicode character Bōm (restaurant), a Michelin-starred...

(zero width no-break space) is also here, which is only meant for a byte order mark (that may precede text, Arabic or not, or be absent). The block name...

character set being used is undefined: some applications require a Unicode byte order mark (BOM) to enforce Unicode interpretation (sometimes even a UTF-8 BOM)...

does not provide a way to concatenate Unicode text files that have a Byte Order Mark or files using different text encodings from each other. For many structured...

Byte-pair encoding (also known as BPE, or digram coding) is an algorithm, first described in 1994 by Philip Gage, for encoding strings of text into smaller...