734843 - Unicode Editor BOM Settings

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations Graveyard :: Documentation, defect)

Description

[arky [:arky]]

We need to add Unicode Editor side note in Quick L10N guide. This one gave us a lot of grief.

<snip> 
That's because your editor added so-called BOM to the files, Byte-Order-Mark.

As they're code points without glyphs, you don't see them.

Make sure the file settings of your editor are set to not save with BOM.
</snip>

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727878#c22

Comment 1

[Jeff Beatty [:gueroJeff]]

I looked through the guide to find the most appropriate place to enter this information and did so in the QA section.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Localization_Quick_Start_Guide/QA_phase#section_5

If you can think of any additional places it needs to be mentioned (I'll be including it in the https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Localizing_with_Narro:_Intermediate tutorial as well), let me know.