Random characters in IRPT

I have a simple "hello world" web page.
<html>
    <head>
     <title>Hello Title</title>
    </head>
    <body>
               Hello World
    </body>
</html>
In HTML it displays normally.  As an IRPT it issues random characters at the start of the page display  .   
The first line of an  IE display of the "source" shows  "" (the quotes are something I added to delimit the text.
An OD dump of that text is..
0000000     bbef     c3bf     c2af     c2bb     3cbf      7468   6c6d   0d3e
            357 273  277 303  257 302  273 302  277  <    h  t   m   l   >  r
Anyone have an idea where the "random" chars come from, and how to get rid of them?

Hi Ryan,
it looks like the file was created as UTF-8 encoded as unicode. The "" characters represent a unicode byte order mark which is often used to mark files as being encoded in Unicode. (Wikipedia article ) Notepad on later Windows versions can correctly interpret Unicode encoded files, and sice the byte order mark (BOM) is not part of the text content, omits it from the displayed text.
Unicode incapable editors will not understand the BOM and thus display it as string content, which is where the "" characters come from. It thus appears that the ServletExec IIS plug-in used to process files with the .irpt file extension does not process unicode files correctly. (ServletExec is not used to render .html files - IIS does this by itself).
This seems surprising since every other part of xMII seems to be Unicode capable... Does anyone have any experience with Unicode irpt files?
Is it possible that the irpt file is not actually Unicode but plain ASCII text? Such a discrepancy could cause problems when the ServletExec processor tries to interpret an ASCII encoded file as Unicode, but it does seem surprising...
Maybe would double-check the file encoding options of Dreamweaver to see if it's outputting UTF-8 or ASCII text... You could also try to remove the first three bytes of the file using a Hex editor and see if that fixes it.
Good luck,
Sascha

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