# Ignore BOM on CSV when sending bulk invitations

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**Created:** [09.Май.2017 04:30:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ignore-bom-on-csv-when-sending-bulk-invitations/62332 "2017-05-09T04:30:40Z")\
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That might make sense @techapj I can confirm via hex editor, when Excel 2016 file is saved as CSV

```
a,b,c,d
e,f,g,h

```

there is the BOM marker by default:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/d/8def61e10e87ac4d821765c2216c0d2f6a1313a6.jpg)

> **[Byte order mark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark)**
>
> The byte-order mark (BOM) is a particular usage of the special Unicode character code, .mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE, whose appearance as a magic number at the start of a text stream can signal several things to a program reading the text:
> BOM use is optional. Its presence interferes with the use of UTF-8 by software that does not expect non-ASCII bytes at the start of a file but that could otherwise handle the text stream.
> Uni...

`UTF-8 EF BB BF`

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