Re: [SLUG] Bash Script - Solved

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Tue May 31 2005 - 08:29:54 EDT


On Tue, 31 May 2005, Paul M Foster wrote:

> On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 12:44:22AM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> > On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 12:10:26AM -0400, Bob Stia wrote:
> >
> > > It is finally solved but I really don't know why. Has to do with some
> > > strange hidden commands unseen in the script. I discovered it when I
> > > posted the script to a webpage for Eben to look at. And it only showed
> > > up in the webpage composer.
> >
> > Glad you got this solved!
> >
> Interspersed
> in the file are hex A0 (sic) characters in some of the beginnings of the
> lines. This is like a space character with the high bit set, or an
> accented "a" in the IBM character set.

It is, from iso-8859-1(7):

Oct Dec Hex Char Description
---------------------------------------
240 160 A0 NO-BREAK SPACE

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