byte-order mark

== English == === Noun === byte-order mark (plural byte-order marks) Alternative spelling of byte order mark. === References === John Daintith and Edmund Wright, "byte-order mark (BOM)", in A Dictionary of Computing, 6th edition (2008), Oxford University Press, →ISBN: "The Unicode codepoint U+FEFF when occurring at the start of a file. […] The file's content is considered to start at the position following the byte-order mark."