got ï»¿ symbol in browser

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hi to all

i have a strange problem. when i include php file above html tags then its all right

but when i include my header (php file) after html tags then i got this symbol
on browser ï»¿

my code when i got this symbol is

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<html>

<head>

<title>title</title>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

<link href="css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

</head>

<body>

<? include("includes/top.php"); ?>

please give me some solution. i think i am posting in right category (HTML forum).

Apr 15 '09 #1

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Dormilich

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what encoding has top.php? if it's not latin-1 or ascii, all out-of-range characters are displayed weirdly.

Apr 15 '09 #2

waqasahmed996

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symbol appear even if i wrote nothing in top.php except

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<?

die();

?>

Apr 15 '09 #3

Dormilich

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could be a BOM (Byte Order Mark)

Apr 15 '09 #4

waqasahmed996

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how can i identify if there is any BOM in php

and how can i remove it

Apr 15 '09 #5

Dormilich

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open the file in a good editor, select "display invisible characters" the BOM should be appearing at the very beginning (well, depending on the editor), if not write the file new but don't copy the first line. remember to save the file as Latin-1, not UTF-8.

Apr 15 '09 #6

waqasahmed996

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i am using dreamweaver as a editor

can i identify BOM in dreamweaver

what could be the other reason other than BOM to show this symbol ï»¿

Apr 15 '09 #7

Dormilich

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@waqasahmed996
I don't know, but I guess not
@waqasahmed996
BOM is U+FEFF, a multibyte sign. if you interpret it using Latin-1 (which is not multibyte) the bytestream is interpreted as several characters included in the charset.

Apr 15 '09 #8

waqasahmed996

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if i change following code then this symbol could be removed?

currently i am using this code

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

Apr 15 '09 #9

Dormilich

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@Dormilich
that should do it (best is you open it using latin-1 as default charset).

if all fails, use UTF-8 as encoding (but you need to re-encode the other non-UTF-encoded files). if you're using a DB, check for the content-encoding there first.

Apr 15 '09 #10

waqasahmed996

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thanks Dormilich. you really provide me great help. my problem is solved by using following code.

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

will other application be effected by using utf-8. actually i am given this task only to remove this symbol. other coding is not done by me. thats why i am asking that php code could be effected by using utf-8

Apr 15 '09 #11

Dormilich

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@waqasahmed996
if you're loading data not encoded in utf-8, all (I think so) characters outside the ASCII range will be affected. (e.g. chars in languages like French, German, Spanish, Russian)

Apr 15 '09 #12

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Look at the options in Dreamweaver for saving files. I believe there is an option to select the character encoding to save it in. Nowadays, people should have their html files in utf-8.

Apr 15 '09 #13

Dormilich

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@drhowarddrfine
unless there are problems your chosen script language or browser has with Unicode.

Apr 15 '09 #14

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