Submitted by mindpiss on Thu, 13/12/2012 - 16:43
So I stumbled across this issue the other day. I usually make sure I save all my files as Encoded as UTF-8 without BOM. But somehow, somewhere there may be a file that was saved incorrectly and thus it will give you a validation error on w3c.
Now, how do you go about finding which file is causing the error? Is it a theme file, or is it a custom module or is it a drupal file which you may have modified (I know, hacking drupal core is BAD!)
The solution is: run a shell script to find the file causing the issue.
Find the BOM files: