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byte-order mark en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of byte order mark.
A byte-order mark (BOM) is a special Unicode character.
2020 July 8, “Byte-order mark”, in Distributed Proofreaders, archived from the original on 14 Sep 2024:To communicate which byte order was in use, U+FEFF (the byte-order mark) was used at the start of the stream as a magic number that is not logically part of the text the stream represents.
2013 January 31, Richard Ishida, “The byte-order mark (BOM) in HTML”, in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), archived from the original on 14 Sep 2024:
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