[FX.php List] [OT] Bizarre comment behaviour

[Anders Monsen]

Yay BBEdit!

I've had weird ASCII character choke some of my XML processes, but  
never heard of it affecting comments. Very interesting.

--
Anders Monsen

On Dec 11, 2009, at 1:24 AM, Tim 'Webko' Booth wrote:

>
> On 11/12/2009, at 3:22 PM, Dale Bengston wrote:
>
>> Hmm, I was going to suggest that! I had a similar experience with a  
>> "gremlin" choking a Windows server. The script worked fine on Macs.  
>> The character was not visible in the script.
>
> Yep - except Zap Gremlins didn;t get this one - but it did show in  
> the Find/Repalce dialogue as a funny little triangle...
>>
>> In November, I had a Windows server choke on a file I'd  
>> inadvertently saved as UTF-8 with BOM. That one took a while to  
>> figure out.
>>
>> And just today, I was experimenting with character encoding. I  
>> changed my charset meta tag from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 and it  
>> completely killed all my ajax calls.
>
> Yep, been there, done that ;-)
>
> Cheers
>
> Webko
>
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