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+FEFF

Bytes

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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