[FX.php List] [OT] Bizarre comment behaviour

Jonathan Schwartz jschwartz at exit445.com
Fri Dec 11 15:57:49 MST 2009


I have problems with code after my cat walks across my keyboard. 
Wonder if BBEdit  has DePaw function.

J

>Yay BBEdit!
>
>I've had weird ASCII character choke some of my XML processes, but 
>never heard of it affecting comments. Very interesting.
>
>--
>Anders Monsen
>
>On Dec 11, 2009, at 1:24 AM, Tim 'Webko' Booth wrote:
>
>>
>>On 11/12/2009, at 3:22 PM, Dale Bengston wrote:
>>
>>>Hmm, I was going to suggest that! I had a similar experience with 
>>>a "gremlin" choking a Windows server. The script worked fine on 
>>>Macs. The character was not visible in the script.
>>
>>Yep - except Zap Gremlins didn;t get this one - but it did show in 
>>the Find/Repalce dialogue as a funny little triangle...
>>>
>>>In November, I had a Windows server choke on a file I'd 
>>>inadvertently saved as UTF-8 with BOM. That one took a while to 
>>>figure out.
>>>
>>>And just today, I was experimenting with character encoding. I 
>>>changed my charset meta tag from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 and it 
>>>completely killed all my ajax calls.
>>
>>Yep, been there, done that ;-)
>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>Webko
>>
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