byte order mark

See also: byte-order mark

English

Alternative forms

• byte-order mark

Etymology

From byte order +‎ mark

Noun

byte order mark (plural byte order marks)

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

Usage notes

byte order mark (a mark defining the order of bytes) should not be confused with order mark (a mark indicating that someone's attitude is not in order). Hyphenation can be used for more clarity: byte-order mark vs order-mark.

Synonyms

• BOM

Hypernyms

• mark

Translations

character indicating endianness of a string of text

• Finnish: tavujärjestysmerkki