Smarty

chorlya · Smarty n00b Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 1

Hi all,

I have a strange problem with smarty and UTF8 encoded files on Win2000 maschine. I'm runing PHP 4.3.0 and Smarty 2.6.3.
Here's the problem:
my template is in UTF8 encoded file and when smarty parses it, it adds some characters(see below) on the begining of first line and that is breaking my design. Is Smarty even suposed to work with UTF8 files? And is there a solution to this problem?
If I convert the file to ascii then it works OK, but that's not it really Wink

Thanks

first 16 bytes of my template file:
FF FE 3C 00 21 00 44 00 4F 00 43 00 54 00 59 00 ; ˙ţ<.!.D.O.C.T.Y.

same line in compiled template file:
FF FE FF FE 3C 00 21 00 44 00 4F 00 43 00 54 00 ; ˙ţ˙ţ<.!.D.O.C.T.

first 16 bytes of what browser recives:
FF FE 09 00 FF FE 3C 00 21 00 44 00 4F 00 43 00 ; ˙ţ..˙ţ<.!.D.O.C.

nguyenvinhquang · Smarty n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 1

I'v got the same problem Sad

. I'm a Vietnamese and my web pages must be saved in UTF-8 format. Anybody tell me how to solve this problem! Thanks!

messju · Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:23 am Post subject:

you have to remove the BOM (Byte Order Mark, the 0xfffe) from the beginning of all files.

Janis · Smarty Rookie Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 10

Anybody who had this problem succeeded in solving them?

I have exactly the same problem! (I really didn't thought there would be topic about this or if there were - I wouldn't be able to find it. Very Happy

)

And I checked all the templates that are being used, and none of them have anything odd at the front. Not now anyway. I checked it with several editors to be sure of it, including Linux vim editor which clearly showed two FEFF characters in front of the resulting web page source.

Where else could this extra character/s?

boots · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:26 am Post subject:

Look harder and make sure you tell your editor to save files without the BOM. Based on the first post, I think Messju is 100% right (as usual!).

Best of luck.

Janis · Smarty Rookie Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 10

OK, I found a BOM in some language file in the other script I used (which used Smarty). That's one BOM less. Very Happy

I cannot find the other one but I probably won't look more as only two BOMs result in an extra space in IE6, one apparently doesn't matter.

Thanks!

Numinvest · Smarty n00b Joined: 03 Feb 2010 Posts: 1

Hi all,

I also have somthing with the char FEFF, I don't know why...

The problem is a one-line space on the top (If I save the viewved page and open it with vim, I see <feff> just after <body>)

I work with ssh and editing with vim, but I m a beginner in file encoding

I just noticed than if I comment the "session_start()" thing, the space disappear, but my scripts files are supposely to be in utf-8 ..

Can someone help me ?