Notepad++ seems to add a line break before <?php - how can I fix this?

[chaseman]

I'm trying to use SESSIONS, the start of my page looks like this:

 

<?php session_start();

 

 

and the start of the source code looks like this:

 

<br /> 
<b>Warning</b>:  session_start() [<a href='function.session-start'>function.session-start</a>]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by 

 

The <?php tag is on line 1, yet as you can see Notepad++ seems to add a <br /> before it, which results in the sessions not working.

 

How can I fix this?

[mikosiko]

you can try in "Settings" -> "Preferences" -> "New Document/Default Directory" -> Encoding and choose "UTF-8 without BOM"

[chaseman]

Thank you that fixed it.