UTF-8 and BOM: Difference between revisions
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== What does BOM mean? == | == What does BOM mean? == | ||
BOM stands for [(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte-order_mark "Byte Order Mark"]. | |||
== What is it good for? == | == What is it good for? == | ||
It is used for multibyte characters to mark the order in which the bytes appear. | |||
== What's the problem with the BOM? == | == What's the problem with the BOM? == | ||
* see [http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-utf8-bom.en.php Display problems caused by the UTF-8 BOM] | |||
== How can I detect a BOM? == | == How can I detect a BOM? == | ||
== How can I get rid of the BOM? == | == How can I get rid of the BOM? == | ||
Revision as of 07:02, 14 July 2009
With the Database Activity there still seems to be a problem importing UTF-8 files with BOM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte-order_mark).
See this forum discussion for an example in Hebrew http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=62251#p559428
See also this tracker issues: http://tracker.moodle.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&&query=bom&summary=true&description=true&body=true&sorter/field=updated&sorter/order=DESC
--Frank Ralf 10:36, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
What does BOM mean?
BOM stands for [(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte-order_mark "Byte Order Mark"].
What is it good for?
It is used for multibyte characters to mark the order in which the bytes appear.