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diff --git a/doc/bugs/UTF-8_BOM_showing_up_inside_a_page__63__.mdwn b/doc/bugs/UTF-8_BOM_showing_up_inside_a_page__63__.mdwn index 5324f7991..6f1dc4503 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/UTF-8_BOM_showing_up_inside_a_page__63__.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/UTF-8_BOM_showing_up_inside_a_page__63__.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -I have a git-backed ikiwiki install, and when I commit and push a file from an x86 host (LANG=en_US.UTF-8) to the Ikiwiki box, which is Debian GNU/Linux on Sparc, I sometimes get unusual characters (ef bb ff) before the first character of the wiki text. It seems that this is a UTF-8 "byte order mark" that is getting inserted automatically into the .wiki file by my editor: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/VimTip246#Tip:_.23246_-_Working_with_Unicode +I have a git-backed ikiwiki install, and when I commit and push a file from an x86 host (LANG=en_US.UTF-8) to the Ikiwiki box, which is Debian GNU/Linux on Sparc, I sometimes get unusual characters (ef bb ff) before the first character of the wiki text. It seems that this is a UTF-8 "byte order mark" that is getting inserted automatically into the .wiki file by my editor: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/VimTip246#Tip:_.23246_-_Working_with_Unicode Example: @@ -11,3 +11,7 @@ deal with it, or should I make sure to strip it out before committing? > plugin could be written to s/// them out as a filter. > > I'm unsure if ikiwiki should do this by default. --[[Joey]] + +> Looked at this some more. It seems this would be a browser bug, after +> all, it's not displaying the BOM properly (as a zero-width character). +> To test, I've added a BOM to this file. --[[Joey]] |