byte order mark

See also: byte-order mark

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Etymology

From byte order +‎ mark.

Noun

byte order mark (plural byte order marks)

  1. (computing) A character indicating the endianness of a string of text.
    1. (especially) The Unicode character U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE.

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character indicating endianness of a string of text
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