Characters "" appearing without reason

[thesoundsmith]

I have modified my site for HTML5, replacing a number of video players and javascripts. At the bottom of each page I have a footer, 'fotr.php' which loads successfully on all pages but the home page. For some reason, these characters are inserted into the page. This did not used to happen, and I am at a loss how to proceed. If I copy the php text and insert it into the home page it works perfectly, and all the other pages load the php file successfully. The code at the problem spot is this:

	   <div class="clearer"></div><!-- footer ends here -->	    <div id="pend"><img id="footdiv" src="img/line700.jpg" alt="" />

I don't know where the new characters come from. If I swap out the code and verify, it passes W3C fine, what am I doing wrong?The full page is at: http://www.thesoundsmith.com/index.html

[justsomeguy]

If you're talking about the 3 unicode characters, make sure you save your footer as UTF-8 without BOM. Those characters are probably the BOM.

[thesoundsmith]

That was it, thaks very much.