On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:55 AM, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote:
> 1) *don't use Notepad to edit HTML pages*. Use a real editor, properly > aware of character sets and encodings, and which will highlight incorrect > UTF-8 characters. > Notepad has a big problem when saving UTF-8 encoded files : it writes a > "BOM" at the beginning of the file, which is not only totally unnecessary > for UTF-8, but also confuses other programs. > A BOM is a sequence of 2 or 3 bytes, meant in some cases to indicate the > "byte order" of the file that follows. > Just for the sake of information, DreamWeaver MX also pulls this nice stunt, _also when editing PHP files_. This can lead to annoying problems when a PHP script tries to modify the HTTP headers, since the headers will already have been written, and (depending on PHP solution; mod_php, fastcgi, suphp etc.) will produce nasty errors. When you open a file with a BOM in a UTF-8 aware editor, the BOM is hidden. Software producing BOM makes things go BOOM. -- Jan
