New comment by classabbyamp on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/50579#issuecomment-2137080055 Comment: that's a UTF8 byte-order mark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark > UTF-8 always has the same byte order, so its only use in UTF-8 is to signal at the start that the text stream is encoded in UTF-8, or that it was converted to UTF-8 from a stream that contained an optional BOM.