BOM
Abbrivation of byte order mark. The BOM is a Unicode character used to signal the endianness (byte order) of a text file or stream. Its code point is U+FEFFBytes
Encoding Form
00 00 FE FF
UTF-32, big-endian
FF FE 00 00
UTF-32, little-endian
FE FF
UTF-16, big-endian
FF FE
UTF-16, little-endian
EF BB BF
UTF-8
PHP files that contain a BOM can result in errors. (more info)
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