Dude, thanks. So ya. Next step is figuring out how to make filesilla use an actual text editor instead of opening freaking office. Appreciate the help. Jul 5, 2021 1:48:18 PM neil c timms <mingmengtou@use.startmail.com>: > On Mon Jul 5, 2021 at 5:20 PM BST, Andrew Singleton wrote: >> Nice thought but sadly no. May just rcrat and reupload the file to see >> if libre office did some kind of funky thing. >> >>> source has a <feff> in front of the # when page sourced >>> from Lagrange and fed direct to vim or via mousepad and then vim > it still looks like your source page starts with <efff> a bom > (byte order mark). " Its presence interferes with the use of UTF-8 by > software that does not expect non-ASCII bytes at the start of a file but > that could otherwise handle the text stream." > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark) i had included it in my > scrape of your page from Lagrange but i guess that it was filtered out > for good reason in the trip from here to there, etc. i suggest looking > at your page source from Lagrange in an editor that supports making the > invisible visible:-) Other pages i scraped do not start with a bom. > I now remember having a battle with a bom many moons ago: most > confusing things as we can't see them easily yet they cause us pain. > Live long and prosper V Neil
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