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Branko Čibej edited comment on SERF-197 at 10/16/20, 11:07 AM:
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What you're seeing is not "BOM for UTF-16", it is the code point U+FEFF encoded
as UTF-8 ({{ef bb bf}}). It's the deprecated zero-width non-breaking space, not
a byte-order mark. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it being there, it
does not make the HTML invalid because it counts as whitespace.
Yes, it's a pain that there are still editors out there that add such cruft.
But it's neither critical nor wrong, it's just surprising to people who send
this through {{less}} without sending it through {{hexdump}} first. :)
was (Author: brane):
What you're seeing is not "BOM for UTF-16", it is the code point U+FEFF encoded
as UTF-8 ({{ef bb bf}}). It's the deprecated zero-width non-breaking space, not
a byte-order mark. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it being there, it
does not make the HTML invalid because it counts as whitespace.
Yes, it's a pain that there are still editors out there that add such cruft.
But it's neither critical nor wrong, it's just surprising to people who send
this through {{less}} without sending it through {{hexdump}} first. :)
And by the way, {{head}} will not display the magic code point.
> Website content starts with U+FEFF
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> Key: SERF-197
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SERF-197
> Project: serf
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Sebb
> Priority: Minor
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> Curl shows that the Serf web-pages start with U+FEFF.
> $ curl -s https://serf.apache.org | head -1 | more
> <U+FEFF><!DOCTYPE html>
> This does not seem right.
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