“” Extra characters issue
If you’re using SEPY to edit files to be included in Flash MX rather than in Flash mx 2004 or above, you maybe noticed that extra characters are saved by default “”.
This is due to the default sepy settings which save files in UTF-8 format adding the UTF BOM header.
Flash mx, even if support utf8 file format, does not support the header BOM. so you need to go into preferences and uncheck option “Write UTF BOM”.
* UTF-8 stands for Unicode Transformation Format-8. It is an octet (8-bit) lossless encoding of Unicode characters.
Read more about UTF-8 at http://www.utf-8.com/
* UTF BOM is a byte order mark (BOM) consists of the character code U+FEFF at the beginning of a data stream, where it can be used as a signature defining the byte order and encoding form, primarily of unmarked plaintext files