Invisible syntax errors (Mac)

Henk Barendregt henk@cs.kun.nl
Mon, 09 Dec 1996 08:56:36 +0100


> >I am using the Clean 1.1 compiler for Macintosh. Sometimes when I try to
> >compile modules containing code that have been cut and pasted from other
> >documents, I get error messages about syntax errors that apparently
> >don=B4t exist. As if there were invisible characters that mess up the
> >code. Any idea of how to get rid of this?

> 
> I have experienced the same issue. I use BBEdit lite. What I did to get rid
> of it, was to retype the lines within the Clean editor. This is a pain put
> it works.
> 

I had the same in LaTeX (!). It turned out that there were two kinds
of spaces: a 7-bit space and an 8-bit space.

Henk Barendregt