http://www.aaronfeng.com/articles/2007/12/20/weird-characters-by-visual-studio-2008 en-us 40 Adventures in software development <p>This week we upgraded to VS 2008 RTM at work. Our solution contains database scripts for both SQL Server and Oracle. I noticed when I ran the script on an Oracle database via sqlplus an error appeared on the first line of the script. After a closer examination with a Hex editor, VS 2008 apparently inserts 3 non-printable characters in the beginning of a new file. Check out the image below:</p> <p><img src="http://www.aaronfeng.com/files/vs2008_hidden_chars.JPG" alt="vs2008"/></p> <p>I'm not sure why, or what those characters mean, but they seem to be ignored by most Windows programs except for sqlplus.</p> Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:57:00 -0500 urn:uuid:3830bf9d-f5f4-465b-85f6-9b743941050a Aaron Feng http://www.aaronfeng.com/articles/2007/12/20/weird-characters-by-visual-studio-2008 tools <p>The '3 non-printable characters' are byte order marks (BOM)</p> <p>see <a href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/utf_bom.html#BOM">http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/utf_bom.html#BOM</a></p> Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:29:58 -0500 urn:uuid:fd058ff8-b058-46d0-94f0-540ed2e78801 http://www.aaronfeng.com/articles/2007/12/20/weird-characters-by-visual-studio-2008#comment-4297 <p>Man you don't even know how long I've waited for this since disabling my own Movable Type widget</p> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 06:16:01 -0500 urn:uuid:1b1b8965-3635-44ae-b32d-82fb06c5aa9d http://www.aaronfeng.com/articles/2007/12/20/weird-characters-by-visual-studio-2008#comment-4264