783946 - Strange chars at begging of javascript file when served out of php working fine when served out of IIS aspx page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 238694

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Akshay Srinivasan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
Build ID: 20120713134347

Steps to reproduce:

A javascript file served out of apache to firefox has the following strange chars in it when examined with firebug in firefox:

Working fine in google chrome and other browsers out of same php page.
Page is hosted at http://114.143.28.50:8080/phpexample1/public/formsbased.php so you can have a look for yourself.


Actual results:

Page not working in firefox.


Expected results:

Page should work in firefox like it works in google chrome.

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

“” is a byte order mark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark#UTF-8

It’s been introduced by Microsoft, is not required by the standard, and can be removed.  It is mostly added by Windows text editors.

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=22108 mentions a PHP option to ignore it.

Seeing it as “” means your file is probably being rendered using the ISO-8859-1 encoding, which is not UTF-8.  If it contains only ASCII characters, just remove the BOM.