RE: Authors.c Won't Compile

[Robert Shearman]

Hans Leidekker wrote:
> On Friday 27 February 2004 14:21, Robert Shearman wrote:
> > > > $ LC_ALL=C sed -e '1,2d' -e 's/(.*)/  "\1",/' ../../AUTHORS
> > >
> > > | grep Ove
> > > > "Ove K\x{FFFF}ven",
>
> I'm lost as to where the \x{FFFF} comes from (is it grep?), but as
> such this looks like a valid C string. So it should compile if this
> is the literal source we're seeing. Or could it be that your terminal
> inserts the \x{FFFF}? Anyone else have a clue?

It comes from pasting the lines into my mail program.
> To exclude grep, are there any \x{FFFF}s when you do:
>
> $ cat authors.c

No, there are just blanks spaces where the characters should be.

Rob