PHWinfo - Afficher un message - can't identify/eliminate source of "odd characters" in template-generatedpage source

03/01/2006, 17h10

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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:
>>
>> ï»¿ ï»¿
>>
> [...]
>
> 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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03/01/2006, 17h10	#7
OpenMacNews Messages: n/a Hébergeur:	Re: [SMARTY] can't identify/eliminate source of "odd characters"in template-generated page source -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 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: >> >> ï»¿ ï»¿ >> > [...] > > 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 - -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X against HTML email, vCards / \ & micro$oft attachments [GPG] OpenMacNews at gmail dot com fingerprint: 50C9 1C46 2F8F DE42 2EDB D460 95F7 DDBD 3671 08C6 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (Darwin) iEYEAREDAAYFAkO6sA0ACgkQlffdvTZxCMYIxwCeOz5JljSGxv 6CDbE2egAdtgD6 jUgAnAxgN+pII9BuFUX/xFaGtGTtXPkF =Ib47 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----