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Re: Odd characters in the IDE?

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Subject: Re: Odd characters in the IDE?
From: "Michael J. Hußmann" <michael at michael-hussmann dot de>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:45:37 +0200
Eric M. Williams (eric at oxalyn dot com) wrote:

> So I was Debug-Running a project a few days ago, and the compiler 
> puked on a particular "if" statement. Upon closer examination, I 
> discovered that the space between the "if" and the next word had been 
> magically transformed into something that looked like "RS".
> 
> Looking further, the two following "if" statements had suffered a 
> similar fate, except that they had "US". I had to change them to 
> spaces before the compile would succeed.

"RS" is short for "record separator" and is ASCII-30, "US" is "unit
separator", ASCII-31. Apparent you had selected a font displaying control
codes below ASCII-32 (i.e. space) as actual glyphs.

- Michael


Michael J. Hussmann

E-mail: michael at michael-hussmann dot de
WWW: http://michael-hussmann.de



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