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I am trying to build a project written in VS 2008 using QtCreator under Linux and I get loads of errors:
/home/ga/dev/CppGroup/MonteCarlo/main.cpp:1: error: stray ‘\377’ in program
/home/ga/dev/CppGroup/MonteCarlo/main.cpp:1: error: stray ‘\376’ in program
/home/ga/dev/CppGroup/MonteCarlo/main.cpp:1: error: stray ‘#’ in program
/home/ga/dev/CppGroup/MonteCarlo/main.cpp:1: warning: null character(s) ignored
etc.
Does it mean that the compiler can’t handle unicode correctly? How can I fix it?
That looks like a UTF-16 BOM for little-endian UTF-16. You need to make sure the file is saved as UTF-8 or convert it manually via
iconv -f UTF-16LE -t UTF8 myfile.