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Ellie...

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:35 am

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Here they are:

They appear at the beginning of the file. If I cut and paste the file with
these characters into a xml validator I get an error. These characters do
not appear in notepad but do in my other text editor. Explorer seems to open
the file ok though. Thanks

Martin Honnen...

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:50 am

Guest

Ellie wrote:

Quote:

Here they are:

They appear at the beginning of the file. If I cut and paste the file
with these characters into a xml validator I get an error. These
characters do not appear in notepad but do in my other text editor.
Explorer seems to open the file ok though. Thanks

Does that text editor not support Unicode? What you see is (most likely)
a byte order mark (BOM): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte-order_mark

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Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/

Ellie...

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:13 am

Guest

Thanks, that's gotta be it. the xml file is utf-8 and I've got an old
version of textpad. As long as it is normal and won't cause a problem with
any xml readers then that's fine.

"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash at (no spam) yahoo.de> wrote in message
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Quote:

Ellie wrote:
Here they are:

They appear at the beginning of the file. If I cut and paste the file
with these characters into a xml validator I get an error. These
characters do not appear in notepad but do in my other text editor.
Explorer seems to open the file ok though. Thanks

Does that text editor not support Unicode? What you see is (most likely) a
byte order mark (BOM): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte-order_mark

--

Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/

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