Character encoding??

njm

When creating php pages in Dreamweaver MX (Win XP), I'm getting problems with odd characters appearing at the top of the page:

ï»¿

The're not visible in an IE6 browser window, but I can see them in Mozilla Firebird. Presumably they're something to do with the way DW creates pages, but I'm not sure what. The problem is they're screwing up my pages as they get sent before my session_start() code.

Anybody tell me (if/why) DW is adding these spurious characters to my files, and how I can get rid of them (They're not visible in notepad either)?

Thanks, njm

TheIceman5

have you got any chinese or other language stuff installed? i get this at work, the boss is chinese and it sucks as half the stuff displays wrong with stuff u are getting.

mzanimephp

What part of your code is showing up? Anything inside of PHP will not be displayed as long as you have it enclosed inside <?php ?> tags.

njm

Iceman,

I do have Arabic support on my system, but I've had it there for a while, and I've done other projects in DW since then with no problems.

The only diference I can think of is installing XP SP1? Anyway, a re-install of DW fixed the problem, although there was a lot of cut 'n' pasting to be done with the existing files

Thanks, njm 🙁