Question
This is driving me crazy.
I have this one php file on a test server at work which does not work.. I kept deleting stuff from it till it became
<? print 'Hello'; ?>
it outputs
Hello
if I create a new file and copy / paste the same script to it it works! Why does this one file give me the strange characters all the time?
Solution
That's the BOM (Byte Order Mark) you are seeing.
In your editor, there should be a way to force saving without BOM which will remove the problem.
OTHER TIPS
Found it, file -> encoding -> UTF8 with BOM , changed to to UTF :-)
I should ahve asked before wasing time trying to figure it out :-)
Just in case, here is a list of bytes for BOM
Encoding Representation (hexadecimal) UTF-8 EF BB BF UTF-16 (BE) FE FF UTF-16 (LE) FF FE UTF-32 (BE) 00 00 FE FF UTF-32 (LE) FF FE 00 00 UTF-7 2B 2F 76, and one of the following bytes: [ 38 | 39 | 2B | 2F ]† UTF-1 F7 64 4C UTF-EBCDIC DD 73 66 73 SCSU 0E FE FF BOCU-1 FB EE 28 optionally followed by FF†
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