[WSG] UTF and IE/Mac - extra character?

2005-09-19 Thread Nick Gleitzman
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

Re: [WSG] UTF and IE/Mac - extra character?

2005-09-19 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
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.

Re: [WSG] UTF and IE/Mac - extra character?

2005-09-19 Thread Nick Gleitzman
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.