Re: [PATCH] Improve user-manual html and pdf formatting

From: Øystein Walle <oystwa@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 4, 2014, 21:38 UTC
Message-ID: <loom.20140104T223713-502@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20140104211834.GC12251@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder <at> gmail.com> writes:

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> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thomas Ackermann wrote:
> 
> > --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
> >  <at>  <at>  -1,5 +1,5  <at>  <at> 
> > -Git User Manual
> > +&#65279;Git User Manual
> 
> Why?
> 
> Puzzled,
> Jonathan
>

That's a Unicode Byte Order Mark. In UTF-8 it serves no purpose except to indicate that a file is in fact UTF-8. A job which most editors don't need help with.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark

Øsse