encoding issue
Solution 1
That's a BOM character, which is there because the source code files are saved as UTF-8 BOM. Try to save them as UTF-8 no-BOM (or whatever your editor calls it) or indeed ISO-8859-1 if you must use it (...why would you?).
Solution 2
If you want to use iso-8859-1
, you need to save your PHP file as iso-8859-1
.
For detailed instructions, please tell us which editor you're using.
However, I highly recommend that you use UTF8 instead.
Comments
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rlc over 1 year
I'm developing a website using PHP and these strange chars "" appears in my page, right on the top of it. My code is this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><?php echo '';?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
But when I see the source code in the browser, it shows this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
I don't know if has any relation to the encoding I'm using, because when I change the charset to
charset=utf-8
it disappears but I must use iso-8859-1 -
rlc over 13 yearsMozilla Firefox says it's using iso-8859-1
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clee over 13 yearsIt depends on the editor you're using. So... what editor are you using?
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rlc over 13 yearsI have already configured Eclipse for that, and it still appears.
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Gromski over 13 years@Rafael Sorry, I can't tell you how to do that in Eclipse. Look at the documentation how to set a files encoding.
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mshthn about 12 yearsOh man. You've saved my life with that. Saving the file as an ANSI one solved my problem.
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raina77ow over 11 yearsDon't you think that OP did place the code right? Why didn't you check the answer that was accepted (as it - obviously - described the problem and its possible solution quite correctly)?