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Byte order mark inside files

Byte order mark inside files

Lint will flag any byte-order-mark (BOM) characters it finds in the middle of a file. Since we expect files to be encoded with UTF-8 (see the EnforceUTF8 issue), the BOM characters are not necessary, and they are not handled correctly by all tools. For example, if you have a BOM as part of a resource name in one particular translation, that name will not be considered identical to the base resource's name and the translation will not be used.

Issue id: ByteOrderMark

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark

Inspection Details

Available in:

IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3, Qodana for Android 2023.3, Qodana for JVM 2023.3

Plugin:

Android, 2022.3.1 Beta 2

Last modified: 13 July 2023