strange characters above header & narrow page

Hi,

Using 1.3.8. url is https://www.herbschina.com.

Problem 1: using three column page which shows up very narrow. As I open browser window to the widest the margins on left & right get wider but page content does now spread.

Problem 2: strange characters  appear in upper left corner above "home" link. Have tried to find this in numerous english & template files but still don't see where they are coming from except:

Source view shows these characters just below   <div id="mainWrapper">   


<div id="mainWrapper">  only appears in the file " /home/herbschi/public_html/zen/includes/templates/template_default/common/tpl_main_page.php "

 When I look at this file I don't see these characters after    <div id="mainWrapper"> or anywhere else on the page.

HELP, Please someone

OK, while waiting for help I figured out which stylesheet has the width problem and changed it for a full width page.

BUT still show the strange characters.

Thats a UTF8 Bom , has been added to your file by your editor .. turning UFT8 encoding in your editor might show that character while editing a file . don't use UTF8 encoding when editing zen files.

to locate that , use developer tool kit to see which file actually got this.

OK, since i'm totally uneducated about UTF8:

1- I used Dreamweaver MX. How do I turn UTF8 off.

2- Dev tool kit showed these characters on line "0" ?????????? what is line "0" and how do I deleted or edit it??????????

im not sure about dreamweaver .. but developer tool kit also show you the file in question ..
simply download the file and open it in notepad , those characters usually inserted at a very beginning of a page before any text or any start of code .

Have similar issue - Above EZ-Pages only
The following characters: "�" are shown above the store header within a PHP code: "��<�?�p�h�p� �" and more.
Search on developer kit didn't find the characters above.
Using 1.3.8a with Hebrew UTF8, with English it show correctly.
here is page address:
http://www.addvant.co.il/index.php?main_page=page&id=10

Thanks
AddVant.co.il

Ok, Found out what was the issue of:

AddVant:

Have similar issue - Above EZ-Pages only
The following characters: "�" are shown above the store header within a PHP code: "��<�?�p�h�p� �" and more.
here is page address:
http://www.addvant.co.il/index.php?main_page=page&id=10

File at /includes/languages/hebrew/page_3.php has the UFT8 BOM. Also this file was not in use it still effected. saved new file without BOM and problem disappeared.

Thanks for inspiration!
AddVant.co.il