UTF-8 and BOM

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.

What's the problem with the BOM?

• see Display problems caused by the UTF-8 BOM