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Extra Characters in "M" Merge - Altstatten - 03-25-2012
Trrying to figure out how to get the "M" button to work properly. Am using this for a footprint:
allintext:"Powered by WordPress" + "Leave A Reply" + "Website"
Got two keywords and the end product looks like this:
allintext:"Powered by WordPress" + "Leave A Reply" + "Website" cat
allintext:"Powered by WordPress" + "Leave A Reply" + "Website" dog
See the extra characters at the beginning of each line? Why are they there? Made my Footprint txt file in Notepad++. What's wrong and how do I fix it?
(Please don't tell me there's already a default WordPress footprint built into the program. I know that and that's not the point here. Thanks.)
I figured it out:
Three words for you:
Byte Order Mark (BOM)
That's the representation for the UTF-8 BOM in ISO-8859-1. You have to tell your editor to not use BOMs or use a different editor to stripe them out.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3255993/how-do-i-remove-i-from-the-beginning-of-a-file