Byte Order Mark - Representations of Byte Order Marks By Encoding

Representations of Byte Order Marks By Encoding

This table illustrates how BOMs are represented as octet sequences and how they appear expressed in another encoding (here the legacy ISO-8859-1):

Encoding Representation (hexadecimal) Representation (decimal) Representation (ISO-8859-1)
UTF-8 EF BB BF 239 187 191 
UTF-16 (BE) FE FF 254 255 þÿ
UTF-16 (LE) FF FE 255 254 ÿþ
UTF-32 (BE) 00 00 FE FF 0 0 254 255 □□þÿ (□ represents the ASCII null character)
UTF-32 (LE) FF FE 00 00 255 254 0 0 ÿþ□□ (□ represents the ASCII null character)
UTF-7 2B 2F 76 38
2B 2F 76 39
2B 2F 76 2B
2B 2F 76 2F
2B 2F 76 38 2D		 43 47 118 56
43 47 118 57
43 47 118 43
43 47 118 47
43 47 118 56 45		 +/v8
+/v9
+/v+
+/v/
+/v8-
UTF-1 F7 64 4C 247 100 76 ÷dL
UTF-EBCDIC DD 73 66 73 221 115 102 115 Ýsfs
SCSU 0E FE FF 14 254 255 □þÿ (□ represents the ASCII "shift out" character)
BOCU-1 FB EE 28 251 238 40 ûî(
GB-18030 84 31 95 33 132 49 149 51 □1■3 (□ and ■ represent unmapped ISO-8859-1 characters)

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