non SGML character 0

[Brendan_Nolan]

I am having trouble making a page w3c compliant, I am getting a whole bunch of "non SGML character 0" messages.

When I remove the lines that it says the error was on it just finds more later on 🙂

I really know jack all about characer sets - what is wrong?

The page is generated by php.
I am working on Mac OS X...
Coding in BBEdit

I have attached the output that is causing trouble.

[Brendan_Nolan]

This is such an annoying problem!

The text that I posted above is the result from the PHP code which does not validate properly (the SMGL thing).

I try to validate the code after I paste it in a new text document and save it (using BBEdit) and that doesn't work.

BUT if I then open it in Dreamweaver and go save-as the file will then parse correctly on the W3C validator.

Also I have noticed that if I copy the source from Mozilla Firebird and save it via BBEdit it works straight up.

I have tried "Zap Gremlins" and "Convert to ASCII" in BBEdit with no luck...

HELP!

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EDIT

I have also tried changing from Macintosh to DOS, UNIX and Unicode text

[Weedpacket]

Well, the file you supply does contain some nulls (I found two before the <style> tag). It sounds like something about BBEdit that's doing funky stuff. Not being a BBEdit user, I can't say what it is - but it's hard to blame PHP for the problem.