Kapian, Michael S. (20 de enero de 2005). «Every character has a story #4: U+feff (alternate title: UTF-8 is the BOM, dude!)»(html). MSDN Library(en inglés). Archivado desde el original el 11 de julio de 2010. Consultado el 25 de diciembre de 2018. «And lots of other folks who support Unix tools that did not have to be completely changed to support Unicode by using UTF-8 do not like these extra three bytes at the front of the file. Sometimes that is because they really only support ASCII or ISO-8859-1, other times it is because they just can't handle those three bytes right in front but later on would not matter.»
Kapian, Michael S. (20 de enero de 2005). «Every character has a story #4: U+feff (alternate title: UTF-8 is the BOM, dude!)»(html). MSDN Library(en inglés). Archivado desde el original el 11 de julio de 2010. Consultado el 25 de diciembre de 2018. «And lots of other folks who support Unix tools that did not have to be completely changed to support Unicode by using UTF-8 do not like these extra three bytes at the front of the file. Sometimes that is because they really only support ASCII or ISO-8859-1, other times it is because they just can't handle those three bytes right in front but later on would not matter.»