[TYPO3-english] Weird characters on pages

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Lamb, Brian wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on a typo3 installation that has existed for sometime. I've recently noticed that some pages have odd characters in them such as —.
>
> I've looked in the database and it appears those characters are saved in the database.
>
> My question is how could this have possibly happened and is there anything I can do aside from running an 'UPDATE' command on that field?

Search for more than a single empty line at the end of PHP files (after ?>) 
or empty lines in the beginning of files. Those cause this thing (called 
BOM mark).

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Dmitry "itoldyou" Dulepov
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