When you edited \components\com_puarcade\lang\german.php you may have inadvertantly saved it as UTF-8. If you dont need any special UTF-8 characters, maybe the best thing would be to resave the file using ANSI encoding. In MS Notepad, for example, when you SAVE AS, at the bottom is the encoding type. Otherwise, you can add the following line to this file.
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DEFINE('_ISO','charset=UTF-8');
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9 times out of 10 it is a language file, but it could be any other file you edited. I know whatever file it is it is saved with UTF-8 encoding, but META information for the file is telling it that it is something else.
From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark
QUOTE:
The UTF-8 representation of the BOM is the byte sequence EF BB BF, which appears as the ISO-8859-1 characters in most text editors and web browsers not prepared to handle UTF-8.