[Help] Page not rendering correctly

neil c timms mingmengtou at use.startmail.com
Mon Jul 5 19:48:17 BST 2021
On Mon Jul 5, 2021 at 5:20 PM BST, Andrew Singleton wrote:
> Nice thought but sadly no. May just rcrat and reupload the file to see
> if libre office did some kind of funky thing.
>
> > source has a <feff> in front of the # when page sourced
> > from Lagrange and fed direct to vim or via mousepad and then vim
it still looks like your source page starts with <efff> a bom
(byte order mark). " Its presence interferes with the use of UTF-8 by
software that does not expect non-ASCII bytes at the start of a file but
that could otherwise handle the text stream."
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark) i had included it in my
scrape of your page from Lagrange but i guess that it was filtered out 
for good reason in the trip from here to there, etc. i suggest looking
at your page source from Lagrange in an editor that supports making the
invisible visible:-) Other pages i scraped do not start with a bom.
I now remember having a battle with a bom many moons ago: most
confusing things as we can't see them easily yet they cause us pain.
Live long and prosper V Neil


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