On Wednesday 05 March 2008 11:21:14 Richard Quadling wrote: > But, having just inherited a load of code which are UTF-8 encoded and > all have a BOM marker, all the BOM markers are being sent to the > browser. This screws up sessions as output is sent before headers > (obviously). > > The files are english/non english mix, so I'm assuming the BOM needs > to be present to indicate the order of the encoding (I'm new to the > Unicode stuff, so this is my first real work with anything other than > pure english PHP code). Because of this assumption, I think I can't > remove the BOM marker.
Since the codeunits for UTF-8 are only one Byte long, the BOM is unnecessary. It's just added from some editors that use it as a marker "This file is UTF-8". So, you can safely remove it. Additionally, i don't think PHP has ignored the BOM before. Regards, Stefan -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
