Strange character () shows up when including an external file

[Gary_King]

When I use require(), require_once(), include(), or include_once(), I sometimes get a strange character (  ) show up in the output where the file is included at.

I only see the strange character in non-IE browsers as well (tested using Opera, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla, and Firebird.)

Anyone ever get this before?

P.S.
I only get this on localhost, running Windows XP home. Tested on remote UNIX server, and I don't have this problem (although I wasn't really expecting it.)

[saidbakr]

It may be due to the page character set or encoding, check if there a meta tags in the included files or not
some thing like that
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1256">

[Gary_King]

That's what I thought at first, so I tried playing around with the character encodings.

But, even with a blank file that only has something like

<?php

require_once("./file.php");

?>

and where file.php has the following content:

<?php

?>

I still get the character.