Comments on:  – Visual Studio 2008 – Fucked Up Characters In .aspx Files –  – WTF http://i.nconspicuo.us/2008/04/25/i%c2%bb%c2%bf-visual-studio-2008-fucked-up-characters-in-aspx-files-i%c2%bb%c2%bf-wtf/ Uncovering the hidden treasures of the internet, tech toys... and life. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:01:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Noah http://i.nconspicuo.us/2008/04/25/i%c2%bb%c2%bf-visual-studio-2008-fucked-up-characters-in-aspx-files-i%c2%bb%c2%bf-wtf/comment-page-1/#comment-79222 Noah Sat, 03 May 2008 02:11:42 +0000 http://i.nconspicuo.us/?p=293#comment-79222 Those are the marks some Windows applications use to distinguish UTF-8 from ASCII (they are a translation of the U+FEFF byte order marks into UTF-8). I've never done anything with VS and aspx, so I don't know how to get rid of them. Maybe there is a way to tell VS to save things in UTF-8 without the marks (if you still want them to be UTF-8) or to just save them in ASCII (if you don't care about UTF-8). If you are curious, Wikipedia has some info about the marks on the page about UTF-8: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Windows Those are the marks some Windows applications use to distinguish UTF-8 from ASCII (they are a translation of the U+FEFF byte order marks into UTF-8). I’ve never done anything with VS and aspx, so I don’t know how to get rid of them. Maybe there is a way to tell VS to save things in UTF-8 without the marks (if you still want them to be UTF-8) or to just save them in ASCII (if you don’t care about UTF-8).

If you are curious, Wikipedia has some info about the marks on the page about UTF-8:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Windows

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