Ok, What Is This ??

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 2:04 pm

Ravenice theme, line over the logo on left is:

ï»¿

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 2:11 pm

I'm actually looking at that myself as it appears on my site.
I thought it was some extraneous whitespace in a file but I checked the usual culprits like index.php, header.php, mainfile.php, admin.php etc etc.
If you check your source you will probably see the characters just before a stylesheet REL link.

Oh wait.. under the logo? Hmm, mine is top left corner of the site.
I only have the one theme installed (RavenIce), do you see it in any other theme?

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 2:15 pm

Over the logo like you noticed .. It's between a </div>ï»¿<link rel ..... > shouldn't be that hard to find .. off we gooooo .. Smile

Cheers

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 2:20 pm

Well you won't find the characters in a file, I already searched so it has to be something the browser is interpretting/rendering. Time for sleep for me though.

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 2:22 pm

Hmmm, can't seem to find "meta.php" anywhere. Not in the distro either .. Sad

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 2:27 pm

It's there in Firefox and IE ... I'll find it.

Cheers

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Those are BOM characters. Someone has saved file(s) in UTF-8 with BOM. That's a no-no. I'm not seeing it so I'm wondering if when you transferred your files you may have edited some and saved them with utf-8 with bom?

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 2:36 pm

dad7732 wrote:

Hmmm, can't seem to find "meta.php" anywhere. Not in the distro either .. Sad

meta was removed quite a while ago Wink

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:50 pm

Not me, used Filezilla as usual, no editing or messing with any files, etc.

Cheers

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:52 pm

Quote:

meta was removed quite a while ago

It's in my 2.30.00 distro files. How long ago is a "while" ?? Very Happy

Now that I don't have it any longer, how do we edit the meta now?

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:57 pm

What character set are you using?

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 4:04 pm

Firefox - Western (ISO 8859-1) .. same as always.

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 4:24 pm

dad7732 wrote:

Quote:

meta was removed quite a while ago

It's in my 2.30.00 distro files. How long ago is a "while" ?? Very Happy

Now that I don't have it any longer, how do we edit the meta now?

meta.php was removed in RN 2.40.

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Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:00 am

dad7732 wrote:

Ravenice theme, line over the logo on left is:

ï»¿

I had a same error on a themes from me, here was it a ?.
And its made damed erros over the comletely scripts.

If i looked in the sourcecode over my browser, it was the first diggit in the code.

The Fix: I had uploade the complete Themes new. And the error wasent there after new Upload.

Best Regards

Peter

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 1:23 pm

@dad7732
Can you navigate to your html/jquery/ directory.
Create a new PHP file called nukeNAV_1.php
Copy everything between (but not including) the opening and closing PHP tags from nukeNAV.php and paste it into nukeNAV_1.php then upload and rename it, to over write nukeNAV.php

Let me know if that works for you.

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 4:07 pm

Yes, I can do that and I know what we're trying to do by doing that, hope that works. Will report back later ..

Cheers

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:00 pm

Yes, that worked. I assume you got the team mass email I sent.

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:22 pm

We have found that all that is needed is to just edit includes/jquery/nukeNAV.php and remove the 3 characters and then save it as UTF-8 without BOM

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:43 am

So basically what I did was the same thing but the long way as the characters were automagically removed in the process.

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 8:19 am

... and some editors will not show you those characters (I think this is when the BOM is supported by the editor), so you may have to do some kind of file properties check to see what the encoding is. I had this issue with Eclipse, but I love that IDE because I can very easily see the encoding and very easily convert it.

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:21 am

dad7732 wrote:

So basically what I did was the same thing but the long way as the characters were automagically removed in the process.

Right on, my friend Wink

New Member Joined: Jan 30, 2010 Posts: 5

Thanks for this information it sorted a problem for me. Before I found this thread did a search for the BOM on RavenNuke 2.4.00 Can anyone tell me if I need worry about the results?

Code:

/docs# grep -lir "ï»¿" *


images/captcha/green_clouds.jpg


images/captcha/red_clouds.jpg


images/captcha/blue_clouds.jpg


includes/fckeditor/editor/js/fckadobeair.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/js/fckeditorcode_gecko.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/js/fckeditorcode_ie.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/fckeditor.original.html


includes/fckeditor/editor/skins/default/fck_dialog_ie6.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/skins/office2003/fck_dialog_ie6.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/skins/silver/fck_dialog_ie6.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/browser/default/js/fckxml.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/browser/default/js/common.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/plugins/simplecommands/fckplugin.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/plugins/placeholder/fckplugin.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/plugins/placeholder/lang/fr.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/plugins/placeholder/lang/de.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/plugins/placeholder/lang/es.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/plugins/placeholder/lang/en.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/plugins/placeholder/lang/pl.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/plugins/placeholder/lang/it.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/plugins/dragresizetable/fckplugin.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/plugins/autogrow/fckplugin.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/plugins/tablecommands/fckplugin.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/plugins/bbcode/fckplugin.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/dtd/fck_xhtml10transitional.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/dtd/fck_xhtml10strict.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/lt.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/no.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/th.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/en-uk.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/eo.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/el.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/sk.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/hu.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/mn.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/et.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/uk.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/sr.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/fi.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/fr.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/tr.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/cs.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/sv.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/is.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/pt-br.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/bg.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/de.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/km.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/hi.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/es.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/en.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/fr-ca.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/ca.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/eu.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/ko.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/en-au.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/zh-cn.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/af.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/gl.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/pl.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/fa.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/nl.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/en-ca.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/sl.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/ms.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/it.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/gu.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/bn.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/bs.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/ro.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/ar.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/hr.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/ja.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/vi.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/he.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/nb.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/da.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/pt.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/lv.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/fo.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/zh.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/ru.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/lang/sr-latn.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/dialog/fck_image/fck_image.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/dialog/fck_spellerpages/spellerpages/controlWindow.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/dialog/fck_spellerpages/spellerpages/spellChecker.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/dialog/fck_spellerpages/spellerpages/wordWindow.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/dialog/fck_select/fck_select.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/dialog/fck_link/fck_link.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/dialog/common/fck_dialog_common.js


includes/fckeditor/editor/dialog/fck_flash/fck_flash.js


includes/jquery/jquery.hoverIntent.minified.js


includes/jquery/jquery.hoverIntent.js


modules/Content/admin/language/lang-czech.php


modules/Content/copyright.php


modules/GCalendar/language/lang-french.php


modules/GCalendar/admin/language/lang-french.php

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 3:21 pm

Worry? Not really worry. But you probably don't want to see those characters on your site Laughing

. Open each file in a good editor and then save it without the BOM. RavenNuke(tm) v2.40.01 is being released this week, or shortly thereafter, and the problem has been corrected. Thanks!

Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 4:02 am

BOM characters are only an issue in PHP files because we are not using utf-8 so you can ignore those files with JS extensions and also ignore the images.

Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:46 am

Thank you for the advice