I read your answer to reformat php files used by includes and it did remove the problem. My question is we are working on a web site that needs to display different laguages, will this be a problem?
Thanks Conrad
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A:
The BOM is not necessary in UTF-8. It can be safely removed from your PHP scripts without losing UTF-8 support.
Victor Nicollet
2010-07-16 15:47:30
The UTF-8 BOM can be used to detect the encoding. But as long as the character encoding is properly declared otherwise, it can be safely removed.
Gumbo
2010-07-16 15:53:08
As far as I know, PHP treats all input as latin-1, and therefore treats the BOM as latin-1 characters that should be output to the browser. UTF-8 in PHP "works" because it's possible to write PHP as a channel that serves the UTF-8 bytes as-is.
Victor Nicollet
2010-07-16 15:55:25
A:
Thank you,
I teseted the UTF-8 without the BOM and it works flawlessly! Thanks for all the effort you folks put into this site.
Conrad
2010-07-21 19:35:27