in all of my drupal page (i dont know how but) some special characters (invisible character that free diff recongnize theam as "") added in start of all pages and change all item of template
you can see this in hear: http://itpnews.com
how can i remove these hidden caracters?(you can find them by viewing source of any page of this site and select first carachter of that page)
please help me

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dvessel’s picture

dvessel commented
Component: theme system » other
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

I doubt this is a theme issue or even a core issue. You're going to have to trouble shoot this yourself. Try searching your whole installation for that string. Please explain further or close this when you find the problem.

heine’s picture

heine commented
Category: bug » support
Priority: Critical » Normal
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Fixed

The characters you see are the UTF-8 Byte Order Mark (EF BB BF). The BOM was probably added to a file when it was saved after editing. Notepad is known for doing this. You need to find the file and resave it as UTF-8 without BOM.

esmailzadeh’s picture

esmailzadeh commented

thanks for replies
this character is invisible and i find this with selecting this with any simple text editor like notepad,dreamviewer.. that search has not any result but i find this character in my html source
how can i find this character in source code?
is this possible that this is a hosting problem? when i transfer my host to another hosting this problem was shown up

heine’s picture

heine commented

Use a hexeditor (eg http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm).

To find the file use grep from the drupal root: 

grep -rni "^<?" *

This will give you a list of files to work with.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

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esmailzadeh commented

this caused by using notepad for editing my codes.