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Byte-order mark (BOM)
The Unicode character U+FEFF—or its noncharacter mirror-image, U+FFFE—used to indicate the byte order of a text stream. The presence of a BOM at the beginning of a text file is a strong clue that a file is encoded in Unicode.
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- Industry/Domain: Software; Translation & localization
- Category: Internationalization (I18N)
- Company: Microsoft
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