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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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