It's probably the Unicode 'BOM' (byte order marker). It creeps in when
you save utf-8 files through Notepad or some other editors. Most HTML
editors either show it visually at the beginning of the file allowing
you to delete it manually or have an option to remove it ('Remove BOM
signature' or something like that in Dreamweaver).- ricardo On Oct 17, 1:13 am, "Jeffrey 'jf' Lim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > not too sure if anybody noticed this (I did a cursory search through > the archives - but didnt find anything), but what is with those first > 3 non-ascii bytes at the head of the js? (0xef, 0xbb, 0xbf) Are they > supposed to mean or do anything? They arent present in the old > version, btw > (http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/plugins/blockUI/jquery.block...) > - I am led to think that they are there somehow as an "accident" of > editting, or something... If i could get a confirmation here (one > doubts whether these characters have any functionality role to play as > part of the js), that would be great. > > thanks, > -jf > > --- > In the meantime, here is your PSA: > "It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not > help." > -- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA > Corporationhttp://kerneltrap.org/node/7228
