Some of my pages are blank except for these characters: �

Problem:
Some of my pages are blank except for these characters:  

Symptoms:
- Page is *almost* blank, except for showing these characters:   
- Installing the debug logging utility reports something like this:

PHP Warning:  Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/your_name/public_html/includes/languages/english/header.php:1) in xxxx on line yyyy.

Cause:
When the error message says that the problem is on line 1 of the language file, those symbols are BOM characters, which means you didn't save the language file in the right format.

Solution:
Edit the file, and save it in "UTF-8 without BOM" encoding/format.
 
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