Garbage characters in begining of Mac saved file

Question

I'm new to the Mac environment and Dreamweaver so please
excuse me if this is a simple issue to solve. I've been having
issues with Dreamweaver inserting garbage characters in the
beginning of a file created and saved. In IE6 and 7, the pages do
not format correctly due to these garbage characters. When I save a
new file in Dreamweaver and copy it over to a PC, the garbage
characters show up in any editor . Is there a setting in
Dreamweaver to correct this issue?
Below is the saved code..notice the garbage in front of the
Ôªø@charset "UTF-8";
/* CSS Document */
body{ margin: 0; padding: 0;font-family: "Lucida Grande",
Lucida, Verdana, sans-serif; height: 100%; font-size: 12px;
background-image: url(../images/cmt_talentapp_bg.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;}
a { text-decoration: none; color: #109cd9; }
a.hover { text-decoration: underline; }
#pageContainer { width: 945px; height: auto; border: 0px
solid green; float: left; padding-left: 5px; padding-top: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;}
#headerContainer { padding: 0 10px 0 10px; width: 920px;
height: 100px; border: 1px red solid; float: left; }
#contentArea { width: 710px; padding: 20px 0 30px 0; border:
1px red solid; float: left; height: auto; }

Answer 1

It's just a shoot in the dark. Deending on your settings, DW
may insert a
BOM:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark
At the beginning of UTF-8 encoded files.
You may check your settings and try to change them to suit
your needs, then
see if the problem goes away.
Massimo Foti, web-programmer for hire
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