Re: MI Errors: Found [unsupported Character]

[Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.]

Hello Amanda,

> I cant open some workspaces I made last night. When I came in this morning
> they crashed with the error:
> 
> "file name" Found [unsupported Character] while searching for [a string
> constant] 
> 
> Can anyone solve this mystery, can I salvage the workspaces and tell me why
> it happened?

I have had this a couple of times and didn't quite know what to put it down to. I 
often edit 
workspace files with a text editor since it is sometimes quicker than loading up MI 
and the 
workspace, making changes and saving again. One slip of the fingers and I could of 
accidently put 
a high-bit character (ASCII>127) or null (ASCII==0) in the file which may well upset 
MI.

Try opening the file in Notepad and see if there is any "odd" characters in there. 
Some text editors 
even automatically change null characters to spaces. It's at least worth a try before 
scrapping the 
file and starting again.

Regards,
Warren Vick
Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K.
http://www.europa-tech.com
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