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reply Markku Sukanen <daikane messiah.ath.cx> writes:
Got a "little" problem with source code and the characters/letters used 
in it...  And would like to know how to rectify this:

I'm usually using 'vim' (or 'gvim') for editing source codes, but now as 
learning D as new language, came against a problem with '|' (the vertical 
bar) in source code.  Whenever dmd encounters a '|' in code (outside 
string literals), it errors out with i.e.:

    ...somesource.d(84): unsupported char 0xc2

So, for now, have had to put i.e. "if (a == 2 || b == 3)" to separate if/
else's.
Aug 19 2008
parent reply bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:
Markku Sukanen:

 I'm usually using 'vim' (or 'gvim') for editing source codes, but now as 
 learning D as new language, came against a problem with '|' (the vertical 
 bar) in source code.  Whenever dmd encounters a '|' in code (outside 
 string literals), it errors out with i.e.:
     ...somesource.d(84): unsupported char 0xc2
 So, for now, have had to put i.e. "if (a == 2 ||Â b == 3)" to separate if/
 else's.



The '|' char is 124, not 0xc2 (that is 194 in decimal). I have no problems
using the vertical bar in my D source code. You probably are doing something
wrong, if you take a look at this post you can see your editor is using
something past 7-bit ASCII, try a different editor.

Bye,
bearophile
Aug 19 2008
next sibling parent reply Markku Sukanen <daikane messiah.ath.cx> writes:
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:51:25 -0400, bearophile wrote:


 Markku Sukanen:

 I'm usually using 'vim' (or 'gvim') for editing source codes, but now
 as learning D as new language, came against a problem with '|' (the
 vertical bar) in source code.  Whenever dmd encounters a '|' in code
 (outside string literals), it errors out with i.e.:
     ...somesource.d(84): unsupported char 0xc2
 So, for now, have had to put i.e. "if (a == 2 ||Â b == 3)" to separate
 if/ else's.



 The '|' char is 124, not 0xc2 (that is 194 in decimal). I have no
 problems using the vertical bar in my D source code. You probably are
 doing something wrong, if you take a look at this post you can see your
 editor is using something past 7-bit ASCII, try a different editor.
 



a hexedit, I think it's not just editor issue... there's an invisible 
"0xC2" character following the 2nd '|' in my own post and the source 
code...

Not a D, issue. Heh, sry - should've thought checking the hexdump earlier.
Aug 19 2008
parent Frank Benoit <keinfarbton googlemail.com> writes:
Markku Sukanen schrieb:

 Hmm, after checking my source code and my own post to this newsgroup with 
 a hexedit, I think it's not just editor issue... there's an invisible 
 "0xC2" character following the 2nd '|' in my own post and the source 
 code...
 
 Not a D, issue. Heh, sry - should've thought checking the hexdump earlier.



check the encoding vim uses
D accepts either ascii (<=127) or unicode.

  :set encoding=utf-8
Aug 19 2008
prev sibling parent Markku Sukanen <daikane messiah.ath.cx> writes:
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:12:56 +0200, Frank Benoit wrote:


 Markku Sukanen schrieb:

 Hmm, after checking my source code and my own post to this newsgroup
 with a hexedit, I think it's not just editor issue... there's an
 invisible "0xC2" character following the 2nd '|' in my own post and the
 source code...
 
 Not a D, issue. Heh, sry - should've thought checking the hexdump
 earlier.



 check the encoding vim uses
 D accepts either ascii (<=127) or unicode.
 
   :set encoding=utf-8



Ah! Thanks, that fixed it.
Aug 19 2008