UTF-16 is not supported

Jugoslav Dujic
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Quoting - Mike896

Quite silly to reply to myself.

I finnaly edit a new file and copy my original file step by step.

And it works.  Until, I don't know why

UTF-16, also known as "wide characters", or simply but imprecisely as "Unicode", is character encoding where 2 bytes are assigned to every character (as opposed to common, "ASCII" or UTF-8, or other types of encoding, where 1 byte is assigned). With UTF-16, you can get 65536 different letters simultaneously, but at the obvious cost of using twice as much space. Fortran compiler (like many others) doesn't like UTF-16 encoded files, as it said.

Much of the underlying OS infrastructure in Windows is, actually, based on UTF-16. When you copy/paste text between Unicode-aware and unaware applications, lots of conversions take place and strange things occasionally happen.

What probably happened is that you pasted some UTF-16 encoded text from the web page, Visual Studio recognized that your file now has a wider range of characters than 256 and automatically saved it as UTF-16 (or asked, but you didn't pay too much attention).

In the Save As dialog of Visual Studio 200x, there's option "Save with Encoding", hidden below the arrow attached to the "Save" button.

 


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