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byte-order mark

byte-order mark is the alternative spelling of byte order mark.

Meaning of byte order mark

Noun

byte order mark (plural byte order marks)

  1. A character indicating the endianness of a string of text.
    1. (especially) The Unicode character U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE.

Forms of byte-order mark

pluralbyte-order marks

Questions about byte-order mark

What is byte-order mark the alternative spelling of?
Byte-order mark is the alternative spelling of byte order mark.

Words near byte-order mark in the dictionary

  1. byte order
  2. byte order mark
  3. byte order marks
  4. byte pair encoding
  5. byte pair encodings
  6. byte-order mark
  7. byte-pair encoding
  8. byte-pair encodings
  9. bytecode
  10. bytecoded
  11. bytecodes

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