Re: [WSG] UTF and IE/Mac - extra character?
First thing I thought when reading your message: BOM. And indeed, it is there. I remember, when I still used BBEdit @version 7, I had a hard time getting rid of it. I think you have to set it first in the application prefs, save without BOM, before opening any document. Thanks, Philippe. That did it. I needed to set the prefs, then open a new doc, paste the code into it from the old one, and save. Voila - errant character gone. Cheers N ___ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **
Re: [WSG] UTF and IE/Mac - extra character?
Hmm, until I read that part, I was going to say "just set the encoding to UTF-8, no BOM", because I had exactly the same problem using BBEdit, and solved it that way. When you say you've set "prefs", have you used the "options" button in the Save dialog box to set the encoding? That's what I did. Well, yes - in BBEdit Preferences, if you set 'UTF-8, no BOM' as the default for 'Text Files: Saving', that's how files are saved. You can then use the Options button in the Save dialog to override this on a file-by-file basis... N ___ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **
Re: [WSG] UTF and IE/Mac - extra character?
On 20 Sep 2005, at 7:32 am, Nick Gleitzman wrote:
I've just built a couple of pages using UTF encoding, rather than
iso-8859-1, and all is as expected, except that in IE/Mac, if you View
Source, there's a single character ('?') as the very first character
of the file - and it renders. Thought at first it might be a localhost
thing, but it happens with the online version as well... This
character is not evident when Viewing Source with any other browser -
or in the HTML file.
HTML is written with BBEdit; I've set prefs to save files as UTF-8
(tried with and without BOM - makes no difference).
First thing I thought when reading your message: BOM. And indeed, it is
there.
I remember, when I still used BBEdit @version 7, I had a hard time
getting rid of it. I think you have to set it first in the application
prefs, save without BOM, before opening any document.
Philippe
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Philippe Wittenbergh
Re: [WSG] UTF and IE/Mac - extra character?
HTML is written with BBEdit; I've set prefs to save files as UTF-8 (tried with and without BOM - makes no difference). Any ideas, anyone? Hmm, until I read that part, I was going to say "just set the encoding to UTF-8, no BOM", because I had exactly the same problem using BBEdit, and solved it that way. When you say you've set "prefs", have you used the "options" button in the Save dialog box to set the encoding? That's what I did. "Have You Validated Your Code?" John Horner(+612 / 02) 8333 3488 Developer, ABC Kids Onlinehttp://www.abc.net.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **
[WSG] UTF and IE/Mac - extra character?
Hi all
I'd really appreciate it if anyone can shed light on this non-critical
but annoying anomaly.
I've just built a couple of pages using UTF encoding, rather than
iso-8859-1, and all is as expected, except that in IE/Mac, if you View
Source, there's a single character ('?') as the very first character of
the file - and it renders. Thought at first it might be a localhost
thing, but it happens with the online version as well... This character
is not evident when Viewing Source with any other browser - or in the
HTML file.
HTML is written with BBEdit; I've set prefs to save files as UTF-8
(tried with and without BOM - makes no difference).
Any ideas, anyone?
Page is at http://www.omnivision.com.au/reed/index.htm
Thanks
Nick
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