> The FFFE is the BOM. The other link > http://www.ultraedit.com/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=34 > has instructions on how to remove existing BOM from file. Hmm. seems > to me that ulrtaedit is broken with this feature. I will still stay > with editplus. Download the free notepad2 from http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html It's just a few kB and handles UTF-8 without BOM just fine. See http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:utf8#editing_files Andi -- http://www.splitbrain.org