Three characters at beginning of xml file written with xmltextwriter

[Ellie]

Here they are:



They appear at the beginning of the file. If I cut and paste the file with
these characters into a xml validator I get an error. These characters do
not appear in notepad but do in my other text editor. Explorer seems to open
the file ok though. Thanks

[Martin Honnen]

Does that text editor not support Unicode? What you see is (most likely)
a byte order mark (BOM): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte-order_mark

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Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
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[Ellie]

Thanks, that's gotta be it. the xml file is utf-8 and I've got an old
version of textpad. As long as it is normal and won't cause a problem with
any xml readers then that's fine.

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