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What is meant by BOM ? I tried reading this article but haven't really understood what does it mean.
I read that some text editors put BOM before the beginning of a file. What it is meant for ?
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BOM indicates a home that was in contract to be sold, but is now “Back on the Market.” “No fault of the house” may describe a situation in which the buyer lost interest in the home after a long short sale process or failed to get final loan approval, as contrasted to a situation in which the home's inspection turned up ...
Thanks to the feature Bills of Material (BoM) introduced in Gradle 5.0 you can now use a single version for all the Firebase Android SDK modules. Bills of Material (BoM) allows the SDK developers to specify (in a bill) which module versions are known to work with each other and then set a version to this bill.
The byte order mark (BOM) is a piece of information used to signify that a text file employs Unicode encoding, while also communicating the text stream's endianness. The BOM is not interpreted as a logical part of the text stream itself, but is rather an invisible indicator at its head.
1. Short for byte order mark, BOM is another name for the Unicode character at the beginning of a file indicating if it's UTF-16 or UTF-32.
BOM stands for Byte Order Mark. In short, the BOM is marker at the beginning of a file to indicate if the most significant byte, or the least significant byte should come first.
It causes a lot of problems, especially with UTF8. UTF8 does not use a BOM, but there is a variant called UTF8Y (Or UTF with BOM) that includes a few extra characters at the beginning of a file.
Sending a UTF8Y file, with a UTF8 encoding type, causes a few extra bytes to be sent at the beginning of the file and can cause all sorts of hard-to-track down problems including the DOCTYPE not being parsed correctly one IE or JSON files to fail to be decoded.
It has bitten me a few times with files from other people, when I didn't check the filetype carefully.
My recommendation: Be mindful it exists, never purposefully use it.
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