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1. nadodi
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   There are some weird characters that are being inserted before doctype declaration. Strangely it happens only on the home page and not on any other pages/posts. Firefox ignores it and displays the page properly. IE however inserts a line above the page, breaking the design in the process.

   To see the code, go to http://www.appropriateit.org/, and change character encoding to western iso-8859.

   I have combed through all the template headers with no luck in locating these offending characters. Any other ideas?

   TIA.

2. nadodi
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Those were the dreaded UTF Byte Order Marks (BOM).

   To inspect your file for BOM (note you have to do each include file separately):
   http://people.w3.org/rishida/utils/bomtester/

   To delete it using Notepad++:
   Open the php file using Notepad++ ... now, you won't even see the BOM marks there, BUT it can remove them. Do this. Your file is most likely UTF-8. Go to Format, and select "Encode in ANSI". Then go to Format again, and select UTF-8 without BOM. Save your file. (from Joomlapolis)

3. moshu
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   and from here... http://wordpress.org/search/bom?forums=1

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