BricsCAD Mac DCL dialog error

Fa3ien

Hello,
I have a LISP routine which uses a DCL dialog, created for OtherCAD 12 years ago, works perfectly in BricsCAD for Windows.
On latest BricsCAD for Mac, it stops with an error :

       5: syntax error - unexpected symbol ':' 

which is strange because ':' is part of the standard DCL syntax, I really don't see what I could
use instead (has it something to do with the fact that the colon was the Mac's folder separator in ancient times ?),
and I haven't found anything in the LDSP on that subject.

Thanks for any insights,
Fabien.

Roy Klein Gebbinck

The warning most likely means the symbol occurs in an unexpected position. Can you post the DCL?

Fa3ien

@Roy Klein Gebbinck said:
The warning most likely means the symbol occurs in an unexpected position. Can you post the DCL?

Fa3ien

@Fa3ien said:

@Roy Klein Gebbinck said:
The warning most likely means the symbol occurs in an unexpected position. Can you post the DCL?

Well, I've found the culprit !
The problem was the presence of extended chars (french accents) in the previous line.
The file was encoded with Windows 1252 or ISO-8859-1 (which is pretty normal since it was written in notepad).
Saving it in UTF-8 (without BOM) solved the problem.

I don't know if it qualifies as a "bug" in BC for Mac, but other people might encounter the problem someday,
in a company where PCs and Macs share the same DCL file.

Fabien.

ALANH

I use notepad ++ and often just paste into plain notepad to stop bugs like this. Using word is a big No NO writing lips code as so many hidden characters get created so again paste to notepad from WORD and then save.

I use word as you can do replace using end of line. Notepad++ has it also.

Torsten Moses

Dear Fabien,

in a HexEditor I found several sequences :
0x09 0x3A == .:
(dot for character without visual representation)
so that 0x09 character originates from a) non-ANSI/ASCII editor ? b) copy/paste using such editor ?

Otherwise, saving as ANSII file should also work on Linux/Mac (incl. French characters), as long as the Linux/Mac is configured to use French code-pages ...
many greetings !

Fa3ien

@Torsten Moses said:
Dear Fabien,

in a HexEditor I found several sequences :
0x09 0x3A == .:
(dot for character without visual representation)
so that 0x09 character originates from a) non-ANSI/ASCII editor ? b) copy/paste using such editor ?

Otherwise, saving as ANSII file should also work on Linux/Mac (incl. French characters), as long as the Linux/Mac is configured to use French code-pages ...
many greetings !

The DCL file has been created/edited with Notepad or Notepad++. Maybe some code have been pasted from the Web. However,
replacing accented chars with non accented ones ("é" -> "e") also "solved" the problem, that's how I thought about converting to UTF-8.

Torsten Moses

Dear Fabien,

it might be possible, that NotePad/NotePad++ automatically switch to UTF-8 if they encounter any character above 0x7F :-(
I encountered this as well with UltraEdit (there, such automatic switch can be disabled in Settings);
saving a file with characters above 0x7F in ANSI file is fine - as long as it is used on a system with same code page :-)

So keep an eye on NotePad/NotePad++ whether it switches to UTF-8, and/or force saving as ANSI then.
many greetings !