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 "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
• Some text editors add a BOM by default, for example Windows' Notepad.