[wp-hackers] Theme functions.php Encoding Weirdness

[Jacob Santos]

Matt wrote:
> There's these characters before <?php
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> On Jan 12, 2008 7:32 PM, Jeremy Visser <jeremy.visser at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 19:24 -0800, Matt wrote:
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>>> In Trunk, if the theme's functions.php has the encoding UTF-8, I get the
>>> following error when editting settings:
>>>
>>> *Warning*: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by
>>> (output started at /path/to/wp-content/themes/themename/functions.php:1)
>>>       
>> in
>>     
>>> */path/to/wp-includes/pluggable.php* on line *600*
>>>
>>> But, when I changed functions.php to ANSI, there was no error.
>>>
>>> The settings are still changed, though.
>>>       
>> Possibly there is a BOM (byte-order mark) sneaking in there somewhere.
>> Try looking at it in a hex editor.
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Yeah, that is the BOM or at least what it appears when there isn't 
support for it. Happens all the time on my site. Damn Expression Web.

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