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Posted by Benjamin Esham on 12/10/26 11:53
BJY wrote:
> Benjamin Esham wrote:
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> > Can you show us the beginning of header.inc? And possibly a hex dump of
> > the first line or so? If your file contains a Unicode byte order mark
> > [1], those are probably the characters messing your file up.
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> The hex dump of the output indeed shows 'junk' which i don't know where it
> comes from: EF BB BF EF BB BF EF BB BF 3C 48 54 4D 4C ... where the 3C
> indicates the start of the <HTML tag
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> Any idea what makes PHP spit out this at the start of output?
I think I've found your problem. From [1]:
| Quite a lot of Windows software (including Windows Notepad) adds one to
| UTF-8 files. However in Unix-like systems (which make heavy use of text
| files for configuration) this practice is not recommended, as it will
| interfere with correct processing of important codes such as the hash-bang
| at the start of an interpreted script. It may also interfere with source
| for programming languages that don't recognise it. For example, [...] in
| PHP, if output buffering is disabled, it has the subtle effect of causing
| the page to start being sent to the browser, preventing custom headers
| from being specified by the PHP script. The UTF-8 representation of the
| BOM is the byte sequence EF BB BF.
It looks like the phantom "EF BB BF" bytes are Unicode BOMs. (Why there are
three of them I have no idea.)
Are you using Notepad? If so, I recommend you use a different editor; if
not, see if there's an option to turn off the inclusion of the BOM. If
you're looking for a new editor, I recommend Vim [2], which has great
support for bidirectional text editing, although it does have a rather steep
learning curve. You might check out the comp.editors group if you have any
further questions about text editing and editors.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark
[2] http://www.vim.org
HTH!
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Benjamin D. Esham
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