Three garbage characters at beginning of many files.

[Miles]

At the top of a number of files (listed below) in FCKEditor there are three extra nonprinting characters, ASCII 239, 187, and 191. Looks something like this: /*

They can be shown with a little perl script like this:

open $file, "<editor/js/fckeditorcode_gecko.js";
while ($char = getc($file)){
    print ord($char) ." $char\n";
}

These characters confuse and break some editors and the lighttpd web server. I can see no valid reason for these characters to be present, and as the attached screen shot shows, they occasionally break JS parsing.

The full list of files that have this problem, from the September 17th nightly:

./editor/_source/internals/fckplugins.js
./editor/_source/internals/fckselection.js
./editor/_source/internals/fckdebug.js
./editor/_source/internals/fck_ie.js
./editor/_source/internals/fckxhtml.js
./editor/_source/internals/fckselection_gecko.js
./editor/_source/internals/fckcodeformatter.js
./editor/_source/internals/fckdialog.js
./editor/_source/internals/fcktools.js
./editor/_source/internals/fckcommands.js
./editor/_source/internals/fckxhtmlentities.js
./editor/_source/internals/fcktablehandler_ie.js
./editor/_source/internals/fcktoolbaritems.js
./editor/_source/internals/fckxhtml_gecko.js
./editor/_source/internals/fckconfig.js
./editor/_source/internals/fckdialog_gecko.js
./editor/_source/internals/fcktools_gecko.js
./editor/_source/internals/fcklisthandler.js
./editor/_source/internals/fckxhtml_ie.js
./editor/_source/internals/fcktools_ie.js
./editor/_source/internals/fck.js
./editor/_source/internals/fckundo_ie.js
./editor/_source/internals/fcktablehandler.js
./editor/_source/internals/fcklistslib.js
./editor/_source/internals/fck_gecko.js
./editor/_source/internals/fcktablehandler_gecko.js
./editor/_source/internals/fckbrowserinfo.js
./editor/_source/internals/fckdomtools.js
./editor/_source/internals/fckregexlib.js
./editor/_source/internals/fckselection_ie.js
./editor/_source/internals/fckurlparams.js
./editor/_source/internals/fck_contextmenu.js
./editor/_source/internals/fckdialog_ie.js
./editor/_source/internals/fckundo_gecko.js
./editor/_source/internals/fcktoolbarset.js
./editor/_source/internals/fckdocumentprocessor.js
./editor/_source/internals/fcklanguagemanager.js
./editor/_source/commandclasses/fck_othercommands.js
./editor/_source/commandclasses/fcktextcolorcommand.js
./editor/_source/commandclasses/fcknamedcommand.js
./editor/_source/commandclasses/fckpasteplaintextcommand.js
./editor/_source/commandclasses/fckspellcheckcommand_gecko.js
./editor/_source/commandclasses/fcktablecommand.js
./editor/_source/commandclasses/fckpastewordcommand.js
./editor/_source/commandclasses/fckspellcheckcommand_ie.js
./editor/_source/commandclasses/fckfitwindow.js
./editor/_source/commandclasses/fckstylecommand.js
./editor/_source/classes/fcktoolbarspecialcombo.js
./editor/_source/classes/fcktoolbarbreak_ie.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckstyledef_gecko.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckplugin.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckmenublockpanel.js
./editor/_source/classes/fcktoolbarstylecombo.js
./editor/_source/classes/fcktoolbarfontsizecombo.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckevents.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckcontextmenu.js
./editor/_source/classes/fcktoolbarpanelbutton.js
./editor/_source/classes/fcktoolbarbreak_gecko.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckimagepreloader.js
./editor/_source/classes/fcktoolbarfontformatcombo.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckmenuitem.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckenterkey.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckicon.js
./editor/_source/classes/fcktoolbarfontscombo.js
./editor/_source/classes/fcktoolbarbuttonui.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckstyledef_ie.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckdomrange.js
./editor/_source/classes/fcktoolbarbutton.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckpanel.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckspecialcombo.js
./editor/_source/classes/fcktoolbar.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckdomrange_gecko.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckiecleanup.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckelementpath.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckxml_gecko.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckdomrange_ie.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckw3crange.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckstylesloader.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckdocumentfragment_gecko.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckeditingarea.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckxml_ie.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckkeystrokehandler.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckstyledef.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckdocumentfragment_ie.js
./editor/_source/classes/fckmenublock.js
./editor/_source/fckjscoreextensions.js
./editor/_source/fckscriptloader.js
./editor/_source/fckconstants.js
./editor/dialog/fck_flash/fck_flash.js
./editor/dialog/fck_image/fck_image.js
./editor/dialog/fck_link/fck_link.js
./editor/dialog/common/fck_dialog_common.js
./editor/dialog/fck_select/fck_select.js
./editor/dialog/fck_spellerpages/spellerpages/spellChecker.js
./editor/dialog/fck_spellerpages/spellerpages/controlWindow.js
./editor/dialog/fck_spellerpages/spellerpages/wordWindow.js
./editor/lang/fo.js
./editor/lang/bs.js
./editor/lang/cs.js
./editor/lang/en-au.js
./editor/lang/km.js
./editor/lang/es.js
./editor/lang/eu.js
./editor/lang/ko.js
./editor/lang/hu.js
./editor/lang/no.js
./editor/lang/sk.js
./editor/lang/vi.js
./editor/lang/en-uk.js
./editor/lang/ms.js
./editor/lang/uk.js
./editor/lang/zh-cn.js
./editor/lang/ro.js
./editor/lang/pt-br.js
./editor/lang/af.js
./editor/lang/ru.js
./editor/lang/bn.js
./editor/lang/nb.js
./editor/lang/el.js
./editor/lang/gl.js
./editor/lang/ar.js
./editor/lang/en.js
./editor/lang/fr.js
./editor/lang/et.js
./editor/lang/hr.js
./editor/lang/nl.js
./editor/lang/mn.js
./editor/lang/pl.js
./editor/lang/th.js
./editor/lang/it.js
./editor/lang/sl.js
./editor/lang/lt.js
./editor/lang/sr-latn.js
./editor/lang/lv.js
./editor/lang/zh.js
./editor/lang/ca.js
./editor/lang/en-ca.js
./editor/lang/pt.js
./editor/lang/da.js
./editor/lang/sr.js
./editor/lang/tr.js
./editor/lang/fa.js
./editor/lang/bg.js
./editor/lang/de.js
./editor/lang/sv.js
./editor/lang/ja.js
./editor/lang/he.js
./editor/lang/fi.js
./editor/lang/hi.js
./editor/lang/eo.js
./editor/plugins/placeholder/lang/fr.js
./editor/plugins/placeholder/lang/de.js
./editor/plugins/placeholder/lang/pl.js
./editor/plugins/placeholder/lang/it.js
./editor/plugins/placeholder/lang/en.js
./editor/plugins/placeholder/fckplugin.js
./editor/plugins/autogrow/fckplugin.js
./editor/plugins/tablecommands/fckplugin.js
./editor/plugins/simplecommands/fckplugin.js
./editor/filemanager/browser/default/js/fckxml.js
./editor/filemanager/browser/default/js/common.js
./editor/filemanager/browser/default/connectors/asp/util.asp
./editor/filemanager/browser/default/connectors/asp/commands.asp
./editor/filemanager/browser/default/connectors/asp/config.asp
./editor/filemanager/browser/default/connectors/asp/io.asp
./editor/filemanager/browser/default/connectors/asp/class_upload.asp
./editor/filemanager/browser/default/connectors/asp/connector.asp
./editor/filemanager/browser/default/connectors/asp/basexml.asp
./editor/filemanager/upload/asp/upload.asp
./editor/filemanager/upload/asp/config.asp
./editor/filemanager/upload/asp/io.asp
./editor/filemanager/upload/asp/class_upload.asp
./editor/js/fckeditorcode_gecko.js
./editor/js/fckeditorcode_ie.js
./_samples/_plugins/samples/fckplugin.js
./_samples/_plugins/findreplace/lang/fr.js
./_samples/_plugins/findreplace/lang/it.js
./_samples/_plugins/findreplace/lang/en.js
./_samples/_plugins/findreplace/fckplugin.js
./_samples/asp/sample01.asp
./_samples/asp/sample02.asp
./_samples/asp/sample03.asp
./_samples/asp/sample04.asp
./_samples/asp/sampleposteddata.asp
./_samples/html/sample06.config.js
./_samples/html/sampleposteddata.asp
./fckeditor.asp
./fckconfig.js

[Miles]

Screenshot of extra characters breaking js parsing

[Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo]

Those are the Unicode BOM characters.

[Frederico Caldeira Knabben]

Please check out #310 for more info.