WeBuilder Adding Characters to tops of files

ebarstad · Post by **ebarstad** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 8:07 am

I'm using WeBuilder 7.3.0.69, and I've noticed that it has started putting characters at the tops of my files. So, for example, if I create a new file with nothing in it, save it, close it, and open it in another editor, I see the following:

The characters don't show up in WeBuilder, however.

Any ideas?

ebarstad · Post by **ebarstad** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 8:27 am

Just a note: I changed the default encoding to ANSI (from UTF-8), and the problem seems to have gone away. We'll see.

Post by **Karlis** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 11:30 pm

This looks like an UTF-8 header. I just do not know what is it doing there, because you should never see it if the file is saved as proper UTF-8 file. If you use Unicode, please try selecting UTF-8 as the encoding for your files upon save, otherwise - if you do not use foreign characters, you may simply save your files as ANSI.

mwb1100 · Post by **mwb1100** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 10:09 pm

It's a 'Byte Order Mark' or BOM to indicate the type of Unicode encoding in a file.

You are seeing those bytes when you open the file in a non-Unicode aware application.

[url]http://unicode.org/unicode/faq/utf_bom.html#BOM][/url]

cnburbridge · Post by **cnburbridge** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 9:18 pm

I create a file in HTMLPad, and save it as UTF-8, as a template. I then create a new file based on that template, and it shows up these characters. I think this means that the New From Template command always opens the template file with these characters. I do not see a way around this, except to delete them. When I save it afterwords, it seems to be fine.

Post by **Karlis** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:34 pm

I will check this, probably the template saving mechanism has a bug in it. Temporary solution for you would be to save your template as ANSI.

zippity · Post by **zippity** » Mon May 05, 2008 1:49 am

I couldn't find any other threads about this problem.

Recently, when uploading html and php files I noticed that these characters were inserted at the top of pages and of divs..

In some cases.. as with xml, this prevents the page from working as it should.

I now notice, as in the image above, that this is showing up in the Preview in Webuilder. It seems the program is rendering pages incorrectly.. and I've tried various DOC TYPE settings and makes no difference..

I'm not sure where to change the settings you mention in this thread.. could someone point this out please?

Thank you!

Post by **syrupcore** » Mon May 05, 2008 1:53 am

Zippity, when you do a "save as" you'll see the options at the bottom of the save dialog box.

zippity · Post by **zippity** » Mon May 05, 2008 1:58 am

Thank you syrupcore.. I am a dunce!

(does this mean that my version of Webuilder is a 'non-Unicode aware application' in preview mode? )

Cary · Post by **Cary** » Mon May 05, 2008 5:38 am

You can also go the Preferences >> Files >> General and set the default encoding to either ANSI or UTF-8 without BOM.

zippity wrote:does this mean that my version of Webuilder is a 'non-Unicode aware application' in preview mode?

No, there are other reasons this can happen.

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