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 at the top of the page (UTF-8 BOM)

These characters are the Byte Order Mark (BOM) of the Unicode Standard.

This can be solved in two ways:

  • Save the file without the BOM (some editors have this as an advanced option)
    • Using vi: 
       :set nobomb

      and then save the file

  • Make sure the right encoding is used to present the file (meta charset) / .htaccess or similar

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One Response to “ at the top of the page (UTF-8 BOM)”

  1. SUSAN says:
    2010 April 23 at 06:06

    Thank you for this article. It was very informative.

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