How do I remove a \ufeff character in my webpage scripts?

Question

I am trying to, simply put, remove a hidden zero-width-line-break character (U+FEFF) in my script. The webpage that it has appeared on is at http://cynicode.co.uk (Please no

Answer 1

Here is a solution to a similar issue: Extra BOM character in HTML invalidating DOCTYPE tag

Basically the source of the issue are PHP files encoded in UTF8 with BOM, encoding them in UTF-8 without BOM solves the issue.

Answer 2

Some of your .php files (probably ./functions/page.php contains Byte Order Mark. If you are using some IDE, check this file's encoding properties and with luck you will be able to remove it.

Edit If you use *nix, Elegant way to search for UTF-8 files with BOM? should help.