# Ignore BOM on CSV when sending bulk invitations

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/ignore-bom-on-csv-when-sending-bulk-invitations/62332>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [May 9, 2017, 4:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ignore-bom-on-csv-when-sending-bulk-invitations/62332 "2017-05-09T04:30:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 6:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ignore-bom-on-csv-when-sending-bulk-invitations/62332/3 "2017-05-09T06:28:34Z")

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I went to review the W3C page to double check my understanding that the BOMs were only needed for UTF-16 and UTF-32 because UTF-8 did not have big / little endian.  
With HTML5 things have changed a bit since I last visited the page.  
Older browsers could use …BE and …LE HTTP headers but now the only way is by reading the BOM  
tl;dr for UTF-8 yes strip the BOM

> **[The byte-order mark (BOM) in HTML](https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-byte-order-mark)**
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> What is the byte-order mark, and what do I need to know about it when creating HTML?

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