Top "Byte-order-mark" questions

A byte order mark (BOM) is a Unicode character used to signal the order of bytes in a text file or stream.

Validation error: Byte-Order Mark found in UTF-8 File

I'm working on a website and while displaying it on Firefox is fine, on IE I've got a lot of …

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Reading UTF-8 with BOM using Python CSV module causes unwanted extra characters

I am trying to read a CSV file with Python with the following code: with open("example.txt") as f: …

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How to write BOM marker to a file in Ruby

I have some working code with a crutch to add BOM marker to a new file. #writing File.open name, …

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Removing byte-order marks (BOMs) using Emacs

I have a file containing UTF-8 encoded text with a byte-order mark. This BOM is getting in the way of …

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How to cat a UTF-8 (no BOM) file properly/globally in PowerShell? (to another file)

Create a file utf8.txt. Ensure the encoding is UTF-8 (no BOM). Set its content to € In cmd.exe: type …

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How Can I Best Guess the Encoding when the BOM (Byte Order Mark) is Missing?

My program has to read files that use various encodings. They may be ANSI, UTF-8 or UTF-16 (big or little …

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Remove BOM from string with Perl

I have the following problem: I am reading from a UTF-8 text file (and I am telling Perl that I …

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Add byte order mark to a string via StringBuilder

How can I add a byte order mark to a StringBuilder? (I have to pass a string to another method …

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Why would I use a Unicode Signature Byte-Order-Mark (BOM)?

Are these obsolete? They seem like the worst idea ever -- embed something in the contents of your file that …

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Export UTF-8 BOM to .csv in R

I am reading a file through RJDBC from a MySQL database and it correctly displays all letters in R (e.…

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