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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2022-04-02 21:34:18 (GMT)
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codecs docs: fix grammar mistake (GH-29462)
(cherry picked from commit ea56845744e815ed468dfbdd835110254c3be997) Co-authored-by: 180909 <wjh180909@gmail.com>
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@@ -909,7 +909,7 @@ there's the so called BOM ("Byte Order Mark"). This is the Unicode character
``U+FEFF``. This character can be prepended to every ``UTF-16`` or ``UTF-32``
byte sequence. The byte swapped version of this character (``0xFFFE``) is an
illegal character that may not appear in a Unicode text. So when the
-first character in an ``UTF-16`` or ``UTF-32`` byte sequence
+first character in a ``UTF-16`` or ``UTF-32`` byte sequence
appears to be a ``U+FFFE`` the bytes have to be swapped on decoding.
Unfortunately the character ``U+FEFF`` had a second purpose as
a ``ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE``: a character that has no width and doesn't allow