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byte-order mark

noun

Definitions

  1. Alternative spelling of byte order mark.

    • 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.
    • A byte-order mark (BOM) is a special Unicode character.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for byte-order mark. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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