byte-order mark

A form of byte order mark — A character indicating the endianness of a string of text.

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Meanings

nounbyte-order mark (plural byte-order marks)

plural byte-order marks

  1. alternativeAlternative 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 29 Oct 2024
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    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 29 Oct 2024
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