Encoding Issue (charset=iso-8859-1)

[Stryker]

Hi folks,
I am seeing a few strange characters at the top of my page when viewing it in Mozilla browsers (I.E. is OK). Here's the deal:

• Using Content-Type meta tag with charset=iso-8859-1
• Not using any "out of the ordinary" characters on my page

When the page loads in FF, I see the characters "" at the very top left corner. When I view the source from the browser page, these 3 characters are the very first in the code (even before the -html- tag). If I search for these characters in my source code without going through the browser, it is nowhere to be found.

I know it's an encoding issue, because when I remove the meta tag for the Content-Type, the characters disapear. The only thing I'm using in the entire page other than standard letters and numbers are a couple of -nbsp- but I don't see how that would be causing a problem unless there is a different way to code it with this content type.

Anyone know how I can get rid of these strange characters without blowing away my Content-Type line?
Thanks very much for any suggestions,
Stryker

[mattg2k4]

I use utf-8 as the charset on my site, I'm pretty sure it's the same as 8859-1. You could try that and see if it helps.

Also run your page through the W3C Validator for good measure, it might pick up some small error you missed. http://validator.w3.org/

[Stryker]

Originally Posted by mattg2k4 I use utf-8 as the charset on my site, I'm pretty sure it's the same as 8859-1. You could try that and see if it helps. Also run your page through the W3C Validator for good measure, it might pick up some small error you missed. http://validator.w3.org/

AAAAHHHAAAAA!!!!
Thanks very much mattg2k4!! The validator caught a "," that was of the wrong encoding type and the second I over-typed it with a standard "," the issue dissapeared. I guess that's what I get for copying text from a MS Word doc.

Thanks again,
Stryker