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    TEncoding.GetPreamble

    Return the BOM Marker used by the encoding.

    Declaration

    Source position: sysencodingh.inc line 100

    public 
function TEncoding.GetPreamble : TBytes;  virtual;  abstract;

    Description

    GetPreamble returns the BOM marker bytes used by the encoding. This is only meaningful for the UTF8 and Unicode encodings, for all other encodings there is no BOM Marker.

    See also

    Name Description
    TUnicodeEncoding UTF-16 Unicode encoding.
    TBigEndianUnicodeEncoding Big-endian UTF-16 Unicode encoding.
    TUTF8Encoding UTF-8 Unicode encoding.