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KevinH · 07-23-2022, 10:00 AM

Your text encoding is bad. Not utf-8. The error message says you have an invisible character that has a byte value of 12 (an illegal DC2 - Device Control 2 control character) at character 6 on that line. It looks like it is repeated later on and shows up as an empty square based on your font.

This looks like the text came from a bad terminal capture program that added its own control codes.

Delete them by hand. Or use copy to capture one, and use Find and Replace to remove them all.

07-23-2022, 10:00 AM	#2
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,806 Karma: 6000000 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Your text encoding is bad. Not utf-8. The error message says you have an invisible character that has a byte value of 12 (an illegal DC2 - Device Control 2 control character) at character 6 on that line. It looks like it is repeated later on and shows up as an empty square based on your font. This looks like the text came from a bad terminal capture program that added its own control codes. Delete them by hand. Or use copy to capture one, and use Find and Replace to remove them all. Last edited by KevinH; 07-23-2022 at 10:03 AM.