UTF-8 and BOM: Difference between revisions

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== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[UTF-8]]
* [Unicode]]
* [[Import and export FAQ]]
* [[Import and export FAQ]]


[[Category:UTF-8]]
[[Category:UTF-8]]

Revision as of 09:37, 21 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?

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?

How can I detect a BOM?

You will need a text editor which is capable of showing special Unicode characters.

How can I get rid of the BOM?

[TODO]

See also