False characters in HTML files using Microsoft expression
I have MS Expression Web (12.0.6211.1000).
I usually use Homesite, but it doesn't work on Vista either, so I decided to try Expression for editing simple HTML files.
I found that Espression Web inserts characters

at the top of every file I edit, before the tag <!DOCTYPE...
. What is it and how can I make it stop!
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It is a Unicode byte order mark that is interpreted as something that is not a Unicode character encoding (for example, ISO-8859-1 AKA Latin-1).
The W3C has a manual to indicate which character encoding you are actually using .
If you don't want to use Unicode encoding (I suggest you they are current standards, not ISO-8859 standards, which are deprecated), then the forums suggest changing the encoding by going to (weirdly) File> Properties ...> Language and looking the Save Document As list.
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