On 4 jan 2009, at 23:40, Friedrich Vosberg wrote: > TextWrangler has an option to save files with or without BOM. What > is BOM? You do not want a byte order mark (BOM), so save your files without it. Adding a BOM will mess up a lot of systems and tools, and is not needed [1]. Maarten [1] http://blog.macromates.com/2005/handling-encodings-utf-8/