> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gene Falck > Sent: 20 February 2005 04:26
> OK, I understand about the BOM but this still leaves me > wondering how to save properly. I usually code using Notepad > which offers, from the Save As... menu choice, the Encoding options: > > ANSI > Unicode > Unicode big endian > UTF-8 > > but no UTF-6 BOM. How can I be sure I am saving in the right way? I think you need to use a different editor, or (as I do) strip the BOM off before publishing. You may also find the following article useful. It explains the BOM and the effects it can sometimes have on pages when present: http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-utf8-bom "FAQ: Unexpected characters or blank lines" Here is the code of a Perl script I use to strip the BOM. It's just a quick hack, nothing beautiful, but it may help you or others when you cannot avoid saving with a BOM. (I call it by invoking a batch file in my Windows directory: removebom <filename>.) =================== # program to remove a leading UTF-8 BOM from a file # works both STDIN -> STDOUT and on the spot (with filename as argument) if ($#ARGV > 0) { print STDERR "Too many arguments!\n"; exit; } my @file; # file content my $lineno = 0; my $filename = @ARGV[0]; if ($filename) { open( BOMFILE, $filename ) || die "Could not open source file for reading."; while (<BOMFILE>) { if ($lineno++ == 0) { if ( index( $_, '?' ) == 0 ) { s/^\xEF\xBB\xBF//; print "BOM found and removed.\n"; } else { print "No BOM found.\n"; } } push @file, $_ ; } close (BOMFILE) || die "Can't close source file after reading."; open (NOBOMFILE, ">$filename") || die "Could not open source file for writing."; foreach $line (@file) { print NOBOMFILE $line; } close (NOBOMFILE) || die "Can't close source file after writing."; } else { # STDIN -> STDOUT while (<>) { if (!$lineno++) { s/^\xEF\xBB\xBF//; } push @file, $_ ; } foreach $line (@file) { print $line; } } =================== HTH RI ============ Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/ Publication blog: http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
