Re: Hebrew in php

BJY wrote:

Benjamin Esham wrote:

Can you show us the beginning of header.inc? And possibly a hex dump of
the first line or so? If your file contains a Unicode byte order mark
[1], those are probably the characters messing your file up.

The hex dump of the output indeed shows 'junk' which i don't know where it
comes from: EF BB BF EF BB BF EF BB BF 3C 48 54 4D 4C ... where the 3C
indicates the start of the <HTML tag

Any idea what makes PHP spit out this at the start of output?

I think I've found your problem. From [1]:

| Quite a lot of Windows software (including Windows Notepad) adds one to
| UTF-8 files. However in Unix-like systems (which make heavy use of text
| files for configuration) this practice is not recommended, as it will
| interfere with correct processing of important codes such as the hash-bang
| at the start of an interpreted script. It may also interfere with source
| for programming languages that don't recognise it. For example, [...] in
| PHP, if output buffering is disabled, it has the subtle effect of causing
| the page to start being sent to the browser, preventing custom headers
| from being specified by the PHP script. The UTF-8 representation of the
| BOM is the byte sequence EF BB BF.

It looks like the phantom "EF BB BF" bytes are Unicode BOMs. (Why there are
three of them I have no idea.)

Are you using Notepad? If so, I recommend you use a different editor; if
not, see if there's an option to turn off the inclusion of the BOM. If
you're looking for a new editor, I recommend Vim [2], which has great
support for bidirectional text editing, although it does have a rather steep
learning curve. You might check out the comp.editors group if you have any
further questions about text editing and editors.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark
[2] http://www.vim.org

HTH!
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