Re: why I always see <feff> after ftp

,--- a10 part writes:

| Hi, Gurus:

| I edited html doc on Windows and then upload to my linux server using
| ftp, the ftp server application is vsftpd, after that, if I use vi -b
| to open the html file, I always see <feff> at the beginning of the
| file, anyway for me to prevent this? thanks in advance.

<feff> is the BOM (byte-order marker). Your windows editor is adding
that. For more details on BOM, check out:

http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#22

| /zhenwu

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