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Re: Problems with byte-order marks?

From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:13:29 -0500 (EST)
To: Michael Firbach <OverFirbach@Web.de>
cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0502152311400.26609-100000@localhost.localdomain> 

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Michael Firbach wrote:

> I hope, you can help me with my problems validating my homepage.
> I think, my XHTML code is quite fine, only your validator does report an
> error which I think is related to the byte-order mark of the UTF-8
> encoding.
> 
> It says: "���<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
> Strict//EN"
> 
> Line 1, column 0: character "" not allowed in prolog

Your file begins with two byte-order marks rather than the expected one or
zero.

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Liam Quinn
Received on Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:13:19 GMT

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