[CLOSED] Trying to open certain files with accented characters returns a "file could not be read" error

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Issue by coltpini
Wednesday Mar 06, 2013 at 01:02 GMT
Originally opened as adobe/brackets#3050

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This character caused the error that the file could not be read:
Ð

It was put in a comment, must have come across with a paste somewhere.

just typed this and got the same error:
é

in the test those were the only chars in the document, one at a time.

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Comment by RaymondLim
Wednesday Mar 06, 2013 at 03:33 GMT

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@coltpini:

1. Can you tell us whether it is on Windows or on Mac?
2. What type of file do you have these characters? html, css or js?
3. If it is an html page, what encoding do you have? utf-8?
4. If you can share the file content, can you post it at https://gist.github.com/?

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Comment by coltpini
Wednesday Mar 06, 2013 at 03:46 GMT

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This is in a styl (stylus) file on a Mac. I haven't tried it on any other type of file.

I can't post the file, but I did narrow it down to that single character so I could report the error.

I will try it in other file types to see if I run into the same problem.

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Comment by RaymondLim
Wednesday Mar 06, 2013 at 06:30 GMT

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I still cannot reproduce it. I created a file with .styl extension, copy stylus code from https://github.com/mastoj/NodeJsExpressFun/blob/master/public/stylesheets/nblog.styl, copy your problematic character from here and paste it into my file, save it and reopen the file. And I don't get any error at all.

So we still need your help to provide the details of the minimal content or steps.

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Comment by njx
Wednesday Mar 06, 2013 at 19:20 GMT

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Reviewed. Low priority to@RaymondLim to continue narrowing down with the filer.

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Comment by RaymondLim
Thursday Mar 07, 2013 at 21:37 GMT

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@coltpini:
We still need your help to create a file that can be used to reproduce the issue. I had posted my trial on creating a .styl file and copying these characters, but was unable to reproduce the issue on our end. Not sure keyboard layout is important or not. What keyboard layout are you using? After typing these characters and saving the file, do you relaunch Brackets? Or just close the file and reopen it from the project tree?

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Comment by coltpini
Friday Mar 08, 2013 at 00:14 GMT

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Great I will send you a file with the isolated character.

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On Mar 7, 2013, at 2:37 PM, Raymond Lim notifications@github.com wrote:

@coltpini:
We still need your help to create a file that can be used to reproduce the issue. I had posted my trial on creating a .styl file and copying these characters, but was unable to reproduce the issue on our end. Not sure keyboard layout is important or not. What keyboard layout are you using? After typing these characters and saving the file, do you relaunch Brackets? Or just close the file and reopen it from the project tree?

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Comment by coltpini
Friday Mar 08, 2013 at 00:48 GMT

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ok, so I found out a lot here is a zip file with 4 files.

It looks as though it is not the char alone.
in the zip are 5 files.

1. strippedOriginal.styl - original file with everything deleted except the
   char. (broken)
2. test1.styl - original file, deleted the char and replaced with é.
   (broken)
3. test2.styl - new file created by sublime with é (works)
4. test3.styl - new file created by brackets with é (works)
5. test4.styl - original file with an e not é (works)

Open the folder with brackets and click on each file. again I am on a mac
with brackets sprint 21.

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Comment by coltpini
Friday Mar 08, 2013 at 00:55 GMT

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created a small repo with the files here: https://github.com/coltpini/issueForBrackets
(looks like it may be a problem for github's editor also)

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Comment by andrewdavidcostello
Monday May 13, 2013 at 12:47 GMT

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I also just had this issue when trying to open an XML file:

https://github.com/andrewdavidcostello/bracketsIssues

I am on OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.3

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Comment by peterflynn
Friday May 17, 2013 at 22:59 GMT

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@coltpini@andrewdavidcostello It sounds like these files may not be UTF-8 encoded. Brackets currently only supports the UTF-8 encoding. We have a user story to support other encodings -- please upvote the story if that turns out to be the problem you're hitting.

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Comment by andrewdavidcostello
Friday May 17, 2013 at 23:18 GMT

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@peterflynn That was indeed the issue, thanks for pointing it out. Upvoted.

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Comment by boozedog
Tuesday Dec 31, 2013 at 20:51 GMT

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I just ran into this problem myself ... I wonder, can a more informative error message be shown in the meantime?

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Comment by RaymondLim
Thursday Mar 20, 2014 at 22:44 GMT

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Closing because this is already in this user story.