[jQuery] strange "bytes marker" at head of jquery.blockUI.js?

[jQuery] strange "bytes marker" at head of jquery.blockUI.js?


not too sure if anybody noticed this (I did a cursory search through
the archives - but didnt find anything), but what is with those first
3 non-ascii bytes at the head of the js? (0xef, 0xbb, 0xbf) Are they
supposed to mean or do anything? They arent present in the old
version, btw (http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/plugins/blockUI/jquery.blockUI.js)
- I am led to think that they are there somehow as an "accident" of
editting, or something... If i could get a confirmation here (one
doubts whether these characters have any functionality role to play as
part of the js), that would be great.
thanks,
-jf
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In the meantime, here is your PSA:
"It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not help."
-- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation
http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228