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"" i get this weird symbol at the top of a few of my pages. http://www.brianwallchess.net/games is one of the pages this happens on. I use html/css/php/mysql/javascript and i cant find the symbol anywhere in the code. is there an explanation of this? (i am viewing it in the latest version of firefox)
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Doesn't show up for me in IE7
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those symbols are typically added to file of a certain char encoding (I'm not 100% sure which one though but I think it is utf-by some text editors. Has to do with the documents BOM.
In some text editors (notepad++ for instance) you can chose to save as utf-8 without the DOM being added. I've mainly ran into them when coding php, they are then typically added before the first <?php tag.
I can not see the symbols when viewing that page.
Last edited by Anna; 11-09-2009 at 04:48 AM. Reason: It was BOM not DOM
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maybe its just me because i use notepad++ and php...after i refresh the page a couple times it goes away, though i am running sessions and wouldnt it say i cant run the session if there are utf-8 code before the session starts?
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Those are the latin-1 glyphs for the UTF-8 byte order mark (BOM, not DOM). Check the source in a hex editor and you'll see it: "\xEF\xBB\xBF" at the start (plus an extraneous space). It's used to specify the endianness used in the file. Notepad++ should have a "UTF8 without BOM" menu item (not sure where, as I'm an Eclipse guy).
Last edited by misson; 11-08-2009 at 11:15 PM.
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It's either what Livewire said, or..
this happened to me after I installed a free Helvetica font. The browsers wouldn't/couldn't load it so they put in 
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