Iron Speed Designer automatically sets the page encoding to UTF-8. (There are several HTML page encodings, including UTF-8, UT-16, and UTF-32.) In particular, Iron Speed Designer generates ASPX pages and ASCX controls with a UTF-8 Byte Order Mark (BOM) EF BB BF at the beginning of file. While not strictly required, this is considered the “correct way to do things” by many application developers.
For more detail on the UTF-8 page encoding, we recommend:
For more details on UTF-8 and the byte order mark, we recommend:
Localizing (Internationalizing) Your Application