strange letters at the file beginning

[Andi]

Hi Dev-Team

in the following files are some cryptical Letters at the beginning of the file:
Something like this: ï"¿

docs/faq.htm
lang/arabic-utf-8.php
lang/brazilian_portuguese-utf-8.php
lang/bulgarian-utf-8.php
lang/catalan-utf-8.php
lang/chinese_big5-utf-8.php
lang/chinese_gb-utf-8.php
lang/chinese_gb.php
lang/croatian-utf-8.php
lang/czech-utf-8.php
lang/danish-utf-8.php
lang/dutch-utf-8.php
lang/english-utf-8.php
lang/estonian-utf-8.php
lang/finnish-utf-8.php
lang/french-utf-8.php
lang/german-utf-8.php
lang/german_sie-utf-8.php
lang/greek-utf-8.php
lang/hebrew-utf-8.php
lang/hungarian-utf-8.php
lang/indonesian-utf-8.php
lang/italian-utf-8.php
lang/italian2-utf-8.php
lang/japanese-utf-8.php
lang/kurdish-utf-8.php
lang/latvian-utf-8.php
lang/norwegian-utf-8.php
lang/polish-utf-8.php
lang/romanian-utf-8.php
lang/russian-utf-8.php
lang/slovenian-utf-8.php
lang/spanish-utf-8.php
lang/turkish-utf-8.php
lang/uighur-utf-8.php
lang/vietnamese-utf-8.php
lang/vietnamese.php

file-versions: newest CVS checkout at this moment

[Casper]

see this thread, http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=10291.0

[Andi]

uuups, thanks for the reference.
That was new for me  :-\\