Validation error: Byte-Order Mark found in UTF-8 File

Question

I\'m working on a website and while displaying it on Firefox is fine, on IE I\'ve got a lot of problems. I used the w3c validator and I got a lot of strange errors.

Answer 1

if using notepad++, use Convert to UTF-8 without BOM.

if you are using php, make sure that any included/required file is in either in ascii or UTF without BOM, as php doesn't handle non-ascii file very good (this one gave me a headache once)

you could try converting your files to ascii, if you don't need utf characters

on your <meta charset > try writing the value within quotes

Answer 2

The free text editor PSPad has a hex editing mode which is very handy for seeing exactly what you really have in your text files.