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Florent Hache	Thursday 22 October 2009 6:08:35 am Hello Everybody, When i see my website i have an invisible caractere at the beginning of my page ( i see the source code ) and in my pagelayout i have nothing Do you know what is the problem ? Thanks a lot ?
Steven E. Bailey	Thursday 22 October 2009 7:40:11 am I think you might be talking about a Byte-order mark - which is something that can be silently added to template/ini files, etc. if you use certain Microsoft text editors to edit those files. Which means that you would see a three-character garbage string "ï»¿" come out and that's it. Is that what you are talking about? If it is: Do a search for BOM in the forums and take a look at this: http://ez.no/developer/forum/setup_design/strange_characters_generated_by_ezpublish I have a shell script that might help in finding the files with a BOM in: http://ez.no/developer/contribs/hacks/ez_shell_tools Certified eZPublish developer http://ez.no/certification/verify/396111 Available for ezpublish troubleshooting, hosting and custom extension development: http://www.leidentech.com
Florent Hache	Thursday 22 October 2009 8:12:14 am Thanks for your answer I use notepad++ and when i change my edit soft it's ok the Character disappears Thannnnks

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Thursday 22 October 2009 6:08:35 am

Hello Everybody,
When i see my website i have an invisible caractere at the beginning of my page ( i see the source code ) and in my pagelayout i have nothing
Do you know what is the problem ?
Thanks a lot ?

Steven E. Bailey

Thursday 22 October 2009 7:40:11 am

I think you might be talking about a Byte-order mark - which is something that can be silently added to template/ini files, etc. if you use certain Microsoft text editors to edit those files.

Which means that you would see a three-character garbage string "ï»¿" come out and that's it. Is that what you are talking about?

If it is:

Do a search for BOM in the forums and take a look at this:
http://ez.no/developer/forum/setup_design/strange_characters_generated_by_ezpublish

I have a shell script that might help in finding the files with a BOM in:

http://ez.no/developer/contribs/hacks/ez_shell_tools

Certified eZPublish developer
http://ez.no/certification/verify/396111

Available for ezpublish troubleshooting, hosting and custom extension development: http://www.leidentech.com

Florent Hache

Thursday 22 October 2009 8:12:14 am

Thanks for your answer
I use notepad++ and when i change my edit soft it's ok the Character disappears
Thannnnks