Hi Everyone

I have a strange problem that started today. Every time I save a fex in dev studio (767), a question mark "?" is inserted at the beginning of the file. Delete it, re-save. re-open, question mark is back.

What the heck is going on? Anyone else see that?

Thx

Jodye

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kerry,

So wierd. i don't have an answer, Jodye, and I apologize for causing a reply to signal false hopes, but since 76n and 71n are different, different enough, maybe you should either up your linux or downgrade your devstu. Or..if you don't want to do that, try downloading 768 and see if it still happens. Are you saving on your local host? or on the server?

Hi Susannah

Maybe you are right. That did occur to me. The funny thing is that nothing has changed in months. And suddenly this problem is happening. I will let you know if it is ever resolved.

For now, I am opening and saving the fexes with notepad++. so I do not get the question mark added.

Jodye

Jodye,

Are you sure it is actually a '?' character and not a character that dev studio doesn't know how to display and is therefore using the ? as a marker?.

Working between Windows and Unix/Linux always adds some fun as the have a number of differences in how they treat text files (different EOL markers for example). I'm wondering if your linux system is saving the file in one charset while Dev studio is expecting it in a different charset. I've seen something similar with files saved as UTF8, while SAMBA/Windows were treating them as US-ASCII. What does

file <fexname>.fex

tell you in Linux?

Cheers

Stuart

Hi Stuart

Thanks for replying. You know what, the problem is gone. I did absolutely nothing to fix it. The weird thing is that I remember someone else had this problem but I do not remember who or where I heard that... I think it was years ago.

Next time I see this happen I will check out the file from linux and see if there is anything strange in there.

Thanks