On 13/06/2008, Melbeach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think this might be a little off topic but it's related to validating CSS. > As of late, my documents have been validating but I get this warning: > "Byte-Order Mark found in UTF-8 File" - I'm clueless as to what this really > means. Can someone please elaborate?
It means the first 24 bits of the file contain the UTF-16 byte order mark, converted into three UTF-8 code units per the normal Unicode code point --> UFT-8 code unit conversion. (Sometimes it's called the UTF-8 magic cookie.) It's not needed. the only reason Windows needs it is to tell the normal ANSI mode code pages, which are also 8-bit and contain no magic cookie, apart from UTF-8 documents. Most intelligent text editors have other ways of differentiating these, or simply always assume UTF-8 for 8-bit text. > I had this problem when I started out coding with Notepad. For some reason, > Notepad adds this to your text file and you have no choice about it. I > started > using Notepad2 (http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html), which provides > the > option of not including the byte-order mark. I use the encoding option > "UTF-8". The encoding option "UTF-8 with Signature" will add the byte-order > mark. I'm not sure how Dreamweaver handles it though. Last time I used Dreamweaver it was still a Macromedia product, so I can't help with that. But I know most good editors have a show-non-printable-characters option. Try enabling it in a good text editor. The good editors that don't have such probably have some other way of manually telling it which encoding to assume for reading 8-bit data, and a similar choice of which encoding to use when saving the document. I know SciTE handles UTF-8 with or without cookies as well as ANSI encoding perfectly fine, so that's an option of editor if you want to get rid of it. -- David "liorean" Andersson ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
