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Interactive development tool that makes it easy to develop and debug Elm programs.
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Unicode BOM in source file causes compilation error #210

Open ncote opened 8 years ago

ncote commented 8 years ago

Files with UTF-8 encoding with the Unicode BOM (byte order mark) at the start don't compile, and the error is particularly cryptic in elm-reactor, since the error pointer points to a line that looks valid, since the BOM is not visible. On the command line (elm-make) with a non unicode terminal, 3 garbage characters appear, which might make this a bit more obvious.

Elm Platform 0.17.0 on Windows 7.

Here's an example from elm-reactor:

Detected errors in 1 module.

-- SYNTAX PROBLEM ---------------------------------------------------- Hello.elm

I ran into something unexpected when parsing your code!

1| import Html exposing (div, button, text)
   ^

And on my badly-configured terminal:

-- SYNTAX PROBLEM ---------------------------------------------------- Hello.elm

I ran into something unexpected when parsing your code!

1| import Html exposing (div, button, text)
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