[Help] Page not rendering correctly
Andrew Singleton singletona082 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 7 01:08:11 BST 2021
Alright ya, using notepad++ to specifically remove BaoM fixed the problem. Again appcist the help, and credited the list on the blog post announcing the fix.
Jul 5, 2021 4:16:48 PM Andrew Singleton <singletona082@gmail.com>:
> Dude, thanks.
>
> So ya. Next step is figuring out how to make filesilla use an actual text editor instead of opening freaking office.
>
> Appreciate the help.
>
> Jul 5, 2021 1:48:18 PM neil c timms <mingmengtou@use.startmail.com>:
>
>> 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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