This is BOM (byte order mark) used in unicode files. This indentify unicode encoding - UTF-8 / UTF-16 LE / UTF-16 BE
In menu format change encoding to ANSI More info e.g. on Wikipedia (viz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte-order_mark ) -- <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?2,50588,50589> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
