Re: UTF-16 is not supported
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.
Jugoslav
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