Re: Re: require() causing strange characters ?

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 10:11:49 +0100, cr.vegelin@gmail.com wrote: > I saved both scripts with ANSI in stead of UTF-8 and the problem is gone. > So the utf-8 BOM character (Byte Order Mark) caused it. > Unfortunately my editor has no option to store BOM-free scripts. > > Is it standard that PHP scripts should be saved without a BOM character ? This is not a PHP matter, unless PHP 6 (which will have Unicode support) does something with it. PHP 5 just outputs it as is. A BOM character is supposed to be the *first* character in a text stream. Otherwise it should be treated as a ZERO WIDTH NON-BREAKING SPACE. <http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#bom1> > Test results ... > If "test.php" (utf8) requires "echo.php" (utf8), page source has > "C�testD", > size 9 > If "test.php" (ansi) requires "echo.php" (utf8), page source has > "CtestD", size 7 > If "test.php" (ansi) requires "echo.php" (ansi), page source has > "CtestD", > size 6 > > The reason for asking is that sometimes "" is displayed on some pages. That means you've used a utf-8 BOM in a page using an 8-bit character encoding (eg. iso-8859-1 or similar), or that you have utf-8 encoded it twice. /Nisse