[texhax] Blank first page problem (how to remove?)

[Axel Freyn]

On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 07:48:40PM +0200, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 2011-06-05 at 17:06:57 +0100, Johnny wrote:
> 
>  > Martin Schröder <martin at oneiros.de> writes:
>  > 
>  > > 2011/6/4 Johnny <yggdrasil at gmx.co.uk>:
>  > >> the first blank page always remains. ??? I am totally puzzled!
>  > >
>  > > POST YOUR LOGFILE
>  > 
>  > I didn't notice your reply, as I haven't properly updated my filter
>  > rules for incoming mail since joining this mailing list, apologies for
>  > that. 
>  > 
>  > The logfile, of course! That led me to investigate and manage a
>  > solution. 
>  > 
>  > Acutally, running the test script in from editing a new buffer, I was
>  > unable to reproduce the problem myself, but going to the original file I
>  > "stripped down" to the minimalist format originally posted, the problem
>  > reappeared. I believe the cause is that I edited the file in Winows
>  > notepad at work at some point and this inserted invisible illegal
>  > character in the file! Saving the file in emacs and 'C-x RET f' and set
>  > encoding to nil solves the problem. Still not sure about what Windows
>  > really did to corrupt the file though?
> 
> There are three bogus bytes at the very beginning of the file: 
> 
> l.1 ï
>      »¿\documentclass{article}
> You're in trouble here.  Try typing  <return>  to proceed.
> If that doesn't work, type  X <return>  to quit.
> 
> Missing character: There is no ï in font nullfont!
> Missing character: There is no » in font nullfont!
> Missing character: There is no ¿ in font nullfont!
Die drei Bytes sind ein Byte Order Mark für Unicode
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark
xelatex ignoriert sie, latex verträgt sie nicht :-)

Bei den meisten Editoren kann man einstellen, ob er ein "BOM" eintragen
soll, oder nicht... 

Axel