Posted by dorayme on 06/26/07 14:03

In article <f5r3kg$9e9$1@online.de>,
Benjamin Niemann <pink@odahoda.de> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> dorayme wrote:
>
> > I have been getting some strange characters appear from my local
> > server when some markup is delivered via a php include. Even when
> > I select all in the include file and delete and save, I get,
> > naturally enough none of the usual text icorporated. Yet these
> > characters appear at the top of the include in all browsers.
> > Sorry, I have not identified exactly the factors causing this
> > yet. The characters concerned are:
> >
> > 
> >
> > Anyone recognise these and so give me any sort of clue that could
> > be helpful in tracking the source of the problem please? (Hard to
> > know if these will appear correctly when I post this. Might have
> > to screen shot them...)
>
> Look like a BOM. Configure your editor not to write a BOM at the start of
> the file.
>

Will have to figure out what preferences to change in my BBEdit
to achieve this. In the morning! I just fiddled about with prefs
and got some very interesting further trouble. So I think this is
on the right track. I have had some trouble understanding what
the best policy is for web development in regard to settings
generally, there being so much choice. More later, thanks.

--
dorayme

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