I just found something strange; When I open a textfile in PsPad and (with or without changing) save it back, There are always 3 hidden hexbytes (EF BB BF)added to the beginning of the file. I've had a big problem with that when I tried to change something in a .htaccess-file of my forum. I opened the file added some text saved it back
My forum gave an error (500) and didn't work anymore. So I thought I was making a mistake and opened again the same file and brought the text back to original and saved again. My forum still didn't work!! I could only correct the error by putting back the original .htaccess from my backup. After a while I discovered that PsPad added some hex-bytes. When I, this time with a hexeditor, removed these three bytes of PsPad and saved it. Everything worked again. Did anybody had the same experience? Here is an example of a little test. I saved a file wich only contained the text: "Test". After saving I looked with a hexeditor and got this: 00000000:EF BB BF 54 65 73 74 | |
