Well, since the whole web could be full of such pages, fixing the browser would be a better long term strategy.... in the short term, the best tool for quick fixes to HTML pages *is* notepad, which is what is being blamed for causing the problem. :-)
Has anyone worked to be positive that this is the cause of the errant euro? With two simple UTF-8 encoded page (one with and one without the BOM) ? I still have a hard time seeing how a BOM can cause a euro in any way other than consulting fees. MichKa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 11:20 AM Subject: Re: BOM's at Beginning of Web Pages? > At 19:10 -0800 2003-02-15, Michael \(michka\) Kaplan wrote:ħħ > > >Of course if I had a penny for every byte that has been used > >discussing these three bytes sometimes found at the beginning of a > >UTF-8 document, I would not be working this weekend; I'd be > >somewhere really warm and sunny. > > My point was that its being used on the Unicode home page mucks up > the home page display and so it needs to be deleted from that page. > -- > Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com > >
