The characters that appear on your site are 0xEF 0xBF 0xBD which is the
standard Byte order mark (or mask). One of your *.php or *.tmpl files was
modified and saved with BOM and it shouldn't. You should reopen it and save
it in "UTF-8 without Byte Order Mark" (or "without BOM"), then upload them
back to the server.
The files which come in the PmWiki core distribution don't have Byte order
marks. I don't know of any recipe which comes with a BOM. If I were you, I'd
first look at the files which you have modified yourself.
On some editors you need to go into the menu "Document" and uncheck the
option "Write Unicode BOM". In others, select an option from the File-SaveAs
dialog box. Or it may be elsewhere in the menus.
Some text editors don't allow you this, but Geany, Notepad++, Kate can do
this and they are free.
See about BOM here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark .
Petko
Maria McKinley writes:
So, I have these strange characters on my website indicating that utf-8 is
not working properly. I was able to figure out that emacs was not saving
files as utf-8. Now if I create a new php file, it works fine. However, I
can't get rid of the weird characters on the PmWiki site. I have saved
config.php and a bunch of other files in utf-8 now, but nothing seems to
change it. They show up if I use the parchment skin (currently the skin we
are using) or if I switch it to the default pmwiki skin. Is it possible it is
something else? What other files would affect the whole site? If you want to
see it:
<URL:http://www.shadlenlab.columbia.edu/>http://www.shadlenlab.columbia.edu/
This page also use to show these symbols at the bottom:
<URL:http://www.shadlenlab.columbia.edu/test.php>http://www.shadlenlab.columb
ia.edu/test.php
but after I changed the encoding for that file, it displays fine.
thanks,
Maria
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