Random characters in IRPT

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I have a simple "hello world" web page.

<html>
    <head>
	<title>Hello Title</title>
    </head>
    <body>
               Hello World
    </body>
</html>

In HTML it displays normally. As an IRPT it issues random characters at the start of the page display ï»¿.

The first line of an IE display of the "source" shows "ï»¿" (the quotes are something I added to delimit the text.

An OD dump of that text is..

0000000     bbef     c3bf     c2af     c2bb     3cbf      7468   6c6d   0d3e
            357 273  277 303  257 302  273 302  277  <    h  t   m   l   >  r

Anyone have an idea where the "random" chars come from, and how to get rid of them?