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My problem is that after adding a chapter now I have a blank page with just these characters:

ï¾

The page is between the new chapter and appendix A.

I'm wondering why. How ca I get rid of that page?

Here's part of my preamble:

\documentclass[a4paper,singleside,11pt]{report}
\usepackage{ia_urb_thesis}
\usepackage[italian]{babel}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{color}


\usepackage[thinlines]{easytable}
\usepackage{upquote}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{5}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{5}

\usepackage{marvosym}

\usepackage{listings}


\usepackage{etoolbox}
\expandafter\patchcmd\csname ttfamily \endcsname
{\selectfont}{\small}{}{}

\usepackage{url}

\usepackage{amsmath}% http://ctan.org/pkg/amsmath

\usepackage{float}

\lstset{literate={@}{\MVAt}1}

\patchcmd{\verb}{\dospecials}{\dospecials\atspecial}{}{}
\def\atspecial{\begingroup\lccode`~=`@
  \lowercase{\endgroup\let~}\MVAt
  \catcode`@=\active}
marczellm
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  • Please provide a fully compilable Minimal Working Example (ending with \end{document}). Also don't tag all your questions with latex-project. – marczellm Feb 02 '13 at 16:56
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    My guess is that the new file is saved in UTF-8 with BOM (byte order mark) that causes the trouble at the begin of the file. Try to save the file without BOM. – Heiko Oberdiek Feb 02 '13 at 17:00
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    You probably have \input{file} and file.tex has a Byte Order Mark at the beginning. See http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/10474/latex-baffled-by-bom-unicodes-byte-order-mark – egreg Feb 02 '13 at 17:02
  • How do I do that? ..sorry can you please tell me exactly what i should do? – user1990170 Feb 02 '13 at 17:02
  • Whenever I have to add a new chapter i create a .txt file then I rename the file with extension .tex...is that the problem?..thanks – user1990170 Feb 02 '13 at 17:46
  • I've had such problems too... Check that after the \include of the chapter there isn't any garbage, check that the offending chapter doesn't start in junk (a popular place in which gremlins hide is in comments before the \chapter, just before the \chapter, ...). Maybe your Windows adds some garbage to mark the file as UTF-8 at the beginning? – vonbrand Feb 02 '13 at 20:04
  • Yes, I had the same problem, which got solved by removing BOM. I used tail --bytes=+4 text.txt as described by http://www.linuxask.com/questions/how-to-remove-bom-from-utf-8 – amit kumar Feb 18 '13 at 12:06

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