Posted by OpenMacNews on 01/03/06 19:10

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hi messju,

messju mohr wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 08:08:24PM -0800, OpenMacNews wrote:
> [...]
>> but, after generation, i'm seeing the following characters DISPLAYED at the top of my browser
>> page display:
>>
>>  
>>
> [...]
>
> what you see is a BOM (Byte Order Mark). see
> http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html and configure your text editor
> to not write the BOM in front of any text file. neither php nor smarty
> like it.

bingo. _one_ of my templates was typed as "UTF-8 with BOM" (i have *no* idea why/how!?).
changing its type to be Western/Latin1 fixed the problem ... weird characters gone!

thx! it would've been a *while* b4 i found that :-)

cheers,

richard


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