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Byte order mark

The byte order mark (BOM) is a particular usage of the special Unicode character code, .mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}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:

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Byte order mark

Nodes42
Edges41
Triples16
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.047619
Components1

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Byte order mark

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related to External links · 13
Byte order mark → BOM, BOMThe Unicode Standard, Encoding SchemesThe Unicode Standard, FEFFThe, HTML, Noncharacters, Special Characters, Specials, The Unicode Standard, Unicode FAQ, UTF-16, UTF-32, UTF-8

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Important terminology

bom text unicode byte encoding utf-8 utf-16 order bytes stream use used encoded start file endianness utf-32 standard code encodings

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
UTF-7instance ofincluding UTF-8 and ones outside the Unicode standard0.80text
see table belowinstance ofincluding UTF-8 and ones outside the Unicode standard0.80text
Notepadinstance ofand many pieces of software on Microsoft Windows0.80text
Byte order markrelated to External linksUnicode FAQ0.60section
Byte order markrelated to External linksUTF-80.60section
Byte order markrelated to External linksUTF-160.60section
Byte order markrelated to External linksUTF-320.60section
Byte order markrelated to External linksBOMThe Unicode Standard0.60section
Byte order markrelated to External linksEncoding SchemesThe Unicode Standard0.60section
Byte order markrelated to External linksSpecial Characters0.60section
Byte order markrelated to External linksNoncharacters0.60section
Byte order markrelated to External linksBOM0.60section

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