[erlang-bugs] FW: Bug in Erlang/OTP 17 [RELEASE CANDIDATE 1]

[Joe Armstrong]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Andreas Schumacher <andreas@REDACTED>wrote:

>  As Steve pointed out, bug.erl was encoded as ISO-8559-1/Latin-1 and not
> as UTF-8.
>
> As a special case, if you only use non-ASCII characters in comments,
> another alternative is to convert the file to UTF-8; for example, by
> instructing your editor to do so or by using iconv:
>
> $ iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 bug.erl -o bug.erl
>

Thanks - The source came from erlide_scan.erl that I had somewhere.

I recently downloaded erlguten from git hub and ran into this problem.

I think this is going to hit a lot of legacy code.

Would it possible to recompile with the old compiler /scanner if this error
is seen.
It's not nice to find you can't recompile ten year old code ...

Thanks anyway

/Joe




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> Andreas
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> *From:* erlang-bugs-bounces@REDACTED [
> mailto:erlang-bugs-bounces@REDACTED <erlang-bugs-bounces@REDACTED>] *On
> Behalf Of *Steve Vinoski
> *Sent:* den 21 februari 2014 16:38
> *To:* Vlad Dumitrescu
> *Cc:* erlang-bugs
> *Subject:* Re: [erlang-bugs] Bug in Erlang/OTP 17 [RELEASE CANDIDATE 1]
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> Agreed. On OS X:
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> $ file -I bug.erl
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> bug.erl: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
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> Adding %% -*- coding: utf-8 -*- to the top of the file causes the file to
> be saved as UTF-8:
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> $ file -I bug.erl
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> bug.erl: text/plain; charset=utf-8
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> and after that, the compiler -- or more specifically, the file_io_server
> -- is happy again.
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> --steve
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> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Vlad Dumitrescu <vladdu55@REDACTED>
> wrote:
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> Hi Joe,
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> Are you sure it's encoded in utf-8 originally? The file I downloaded isn't
> but it might be any of the systems it went through that messed it up.
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> regards,
>
> Vlad
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> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Joe Armstrong <joearms@REDACTED> wrote:
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>   I can't compile files with UFT characters in R17
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> With R17 [RELEASE CANDIDATE 1]
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> $ erlc bug.erl
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> bug.erl:8: cannot parse file, giving up
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> bug.erl:8: no module definition
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> bug.erl:8: cannot translate from UTF-8
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> With R16B
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> joe:paradis-master joe$ ~/nobackup/otp_src_R16B/bin/erlc bug.erl
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> Cheers
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> /Joe
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