Answers.Body: <p>I finally found what the problem was.</p>
  
  <p>The translations files (/craft/translations/de.php) were encoded as "UTF-8 with BOM"
  I opened these files in Sublime text and saved them as regular old UTF-8, which fixed the issue.</p>
  
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Answers.CreationDate: 2015-08-07T13:41:15.823Z
Answers.LastActivityDate: 2015-08-07T13:41:15.823Z
Answers.UserDisplayName: Martin
Body: <p>I am getting a strange whitespace character when using a different language.</p>
  
  <p>All languages use the same templates/database/plugins etc.
  But when I go to any other language except the default I get a whitespace character before the </p>
  
  <p>I have no idea what this is coming form. Its there when I disable all plugins and use a blank template.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/ilgtt.png" alt="Screenshot of whitspace"></p>
  
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2015-08-06T18:53:16.090Z
Comments.Text: Maybe it's coming from the other language's public `index.php` files?
Comments.UserDisplayName: Brad Bell
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2015-08-07T08:06:47.390Z
Comments.Text: Afraid not, I have removed all trailing whitespace.
Comments.UserDisplayName: Martin
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2015-08-07T11:14:11.653Z
Comments.Text: Found issue. The translation files were saved with encoding utf-8 with BOM
Comments.UserDisplayName: Martin
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2015-08-07T18:55:52.293Z
Comments.Text: Ahh... nice catch!
Comments.UserDisplayName: Brad Bell
Tags: <templating><error><whitespace>
Title: Whitespace created a start of HTML
ThreadText: # Whitespace created a start of HTML
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-08-06)
  
  I am getting a strange whitespace character when using a different language.
  
  All languages use the same templates/database/plugins etc.
  But when I go to any other language except the default I get a whitespace character before the
  
  I have no idea what this is coming form. Its there when I disable all plugins and use a blank template.
  
  ![Screenshot of whitspace](https://i.sstatic.net/ilgtt.png)
  
  **Tags:** templating, error, whitespace
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Maybe it's coming from the other language's public `index.php` files?  
  > **username_0**: Afraid not, I have removed all trailing whitespace.  
  > **username_0**: Found issue. The translation files were saved with encoding utf-8 with BOM  
  > **username_1**: Ahh... nice catch!  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_0 on 2015-08-07. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
  
  I finally found what the problem was.
  
  The translations files (/craft/translations/de.php) were encoded as "UTF-8 with BOM"
  I opened these files in Sublime text and saved them as regular old UTF-8, which fixed the issue.
  
  
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