Thank you for all of your inputs, Walter I have been using Microsoft Expression Web and discovered automatic BOM applied to the JS file and have resaved without BOM and ensured UTF-8 encoding.
Brian your suggestion of the html entity worked. My application is now working as desired, may I again thank you for all of your thoughts that helped me to fix this issue. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
