RE: HTML Editor 2010SE (Second...

Jul 9th, 2010 at 09:59 PM
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Albert
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Scott Swedorski wrote:
What is a BOM?


In UTF-16 and UTF-32 are the characters defined by 2 or 3 Bytes, sometimes they give the Byte Order Mark with the first three characters in a file.

Some files (like .htaccess) don't work anymore when there is a BOM in the file.

With Notepad++ it is easy to convert files: (see attach).

More technical info you can find here:

http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html

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Jul 9th, 2010 at 10:01 PM
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To add to what Albert wrote, the BOM tells the editor it's looking at a unicode file and what kind.
Jul 9th, 2010 at 10:26 PM
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Thanks for the info guys. I will post this to our developers and see if we can do something about this in a future update.
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Jul 9th, 2010 at 10:38 PM
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PHP doesn't think it's the BOM. :)
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Jul 9th, 2010 at 10:39 PM
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Tom wrote:
PHP doesn't think it's the BOM. :)

I wondered who would be the first one to make a joke like that. I know we were all thinking it!! :)
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Jul 9th, 2010 at 10:44 PM
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I was being totally serious, though. :) OK, maybe not. But that's how I discovered the BOM. I was seeing crazy characters in my php and pasted them into Google to find out what they were. LOL. It seems PHP has trouble with the BOM. :)
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Jul 13th, 2010 at 05:42 PM
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Scott Swedorski wrote:
Tom wrote:
PHP doesn't think it's the BOM. :)

I wondered who would be the first one to make a joke like that. I know we were all thinking it!! :)


So this BOM walks into a bar with a set of jumper leads. The barman looks up and says, you're welcome as long as you don't start anything.

*Bows to the rapturous applause (and possibly groans)*



Jul 13th, 2010 at 05:51 PM
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I was just gonna say CoffeeCup is the BOMb. :)
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Jul 13th, 2010 at 05:59 PM
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in 3...2...1 and now CoffeeCup shows up on Homeland Security radar. :)
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Jul 13th, 2010 at 06:19 PM
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It might be I am not 100% up to date but is not html5 and css3 still under development? And if I am not mistaken it will work on firefox but not on IE yet :/

Yes, it will work with the new IE9 when it comes out but it will take ages until everyone upgrades to IE9 :rolleyes:

So as it stands you can not really use html5 and css3 until most people have updated to IE9 in the future or your websites if created in html5 and css3 will not show up properly in any IE at the moment.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

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