• Markku Sukanen (9/9) Aug 19 2008 Got a "little" problem with source code and the characters/letters used
• bearophile (4/11) Aug 19 2008 The '|' char is 124, not 0xc2 (that is 194 in decimal). I have no proble...
• Markku Sukanen (6/20) Aug 19 2008 Hmm, after checking my source code and my own post to this newsgroup wit...
• Frank Benoit (4/10) Aug 19 2008 check the encoding vim uses
• Markku Sukanen (2/15) Aug 19 2008 Ah! Thanks, that fixed it.

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.

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

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.
 

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.

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

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.