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This character:



shows up on my site 3 times and for all 3 cases it's shown after a closed div tag. I searched the web and SOF and there are some solutions but none of them worked on mine so decided to post here. I am using .NET. I realize that this is not sufficient info but i am new to programming so not sure what other info you might need. Please let me know. Thanks!

Tim Schmelter
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Looks like an byte order mark. Please check your source and output encoding.

Kees
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Yes it is the Byte Order Mark (BOM). It was driving me crazy too. I researched and started reading about BOM and tried adding charset="UTF-8" to some script tags but no go.

I use Dreamweaver and found that when I saved (save as) some recent html files, the option for "Include Unicode Signature (BOM) was checked. I unchecked and saved and it resolved the unwanted characters (I guess it saves it without the BOM)!!

Updating the meta tags charset to UTF-8 will resolve this too and is recommended (which means dozens of pages for me) but I needed this quick fix.

Also, saving with notepad++ looks to do the trick as well. Here's a related article wrt ++ and settings wrt BOM: notepad++ converting ansi encoded file to utf-8

I hope this help someone!

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Jeff Green
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I use Dreamweaver and found that when I saved (save as) some recent html files, the option for "Include Unicode Signature (BOM) was checked. I unchecked and saved and it resolved the unwanted characters (I guess it saves it without the BOM)!!

This is the perfect solution. its worked for me. thx everyone

Krank Sabbani
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