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Re: [PATCH] Improve user-manual html and pdf formatting

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Øystein Walle <oystwa@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 4, 2014, 22:12 UTC
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Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:
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> > That's a Unicode Byte Order Mark.
> 
> No, its an ampersand, a hash, a number and a semicolon.  Definitely not
> a BOM.
> 
> Andreas.
> 
You're right, of course :) I was a bit hasty.

#65279; is a HTML entity (or at least something like looks like one) for the character U+FEFF, which also serves as the Byte Order Mark. I assume the entity was added to the file by mistake.

Øsse
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