Topic: "Byte Order Mark" out of no where, why?

[Jiokah]

Hey guys,

Sometimes when I screw up my code, I find a Byte Order Mark (), at the top of the page, and usually (but not always) it's alone. I'm not sure, but I think I get it most when I screw something up with the output buffer. And yes, when I switch to UTF-8 is just goes away, but my question is why does it appear there in the first place? I always fix my code to get rid of it but have never really found out what ever it was that caused it. Any ideas?

Thanks!
-Matthew

[kenrbnsn]

Make sure the editor you're using is set to write plain ASCII text, not UTF-8.

Ken

[Jiokah]

oohh, in fact....I do have notepad++ set to UTF-8. I'll have to fuddle around to see where/why it's putting that mark in only sometimes, I'm just rather curious. Thanks a ton! That little mystery was bugging me.