• 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • since the byte-order mark includes all of the information necessary for processing applications. In most circumstances, the byte-order mark character...
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    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...
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  • content of a file. Such signatures are also known as magic numbers or Magic Bytes. Many file formats are not intended to be read as text. If such a file is...
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  • byte order mark in POSIX (Unix-like) scripts, for this reason and for wider interoperability and philosophical concerns. Additionally, a byte order mark...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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