Gibberish in Xcode

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  1. hmemcpy, Jun 3, 2011
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    hmemcpy macrumors newbie

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    Hey, new to programming...

    When in XCode I'm running into a problem.

    Window based App.

    With classes folder selected I go to file/new / UIView / Objective-C class

    But, both files that are created have only gibberish for text, as viewed in the coding section of Xcode. Also, if I drag and drop the newly created .h and .m files from the classes folder into a ASCII text editor, their fine, no gibberish.


    Anyone seen this?


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  2. forum user, Jun 3, 2011

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    Right click on file, Get info, check File Encoding
    open shell and compare with output of
    Code:
    file <name of file>
     
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  3. hmemcpy, Jun 3, 2011

    hmemcpy thread starter macrumors newbie

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    hummm.....

    Are you saying you think this could be a shell script?

    It's not!, what i see on the screen is complete gibberish, not a script.

    So I need to have web storage to show you all a pic? I don't have a web site, so how can I stick a pic up so you can see this gibberish?

    Thanks,



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  4. robbieduncan, Jun 3, 2011

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    You can attach pictures to posts. MacRumors hosts them. Look in the Additional Options box when you reply: the Manage Attachments opens a new window that you can use to upload pictures. Take note of the max file sizes though...
     
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  5. hmemcpy, Jun 3, 2011

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    pic

    here is the gibberish....

    Has anyone seen this?
     

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  6. wrldwzrd89, Jun 3, 2011

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    That's an encoding problem for sure. The tip mentioned above using the file command in Terminal will help diagnose the cause.
     
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  7. chown33, Jun 3, 2011

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    Skipping the inverted question marks, what's left looks like normal text. This suggests the inverted question marks are 0x00 bytes, which would be the high byte of a Unicode UTF-16-BE or UTF-16-LE encoding. The two other characters before the first / are probably the byte-order mark (BOM).

    So somewhere or other, Xcode was probably told to use UTF-16.
     
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  8. hmemcpy, Jun 3, 2011

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    Got it... FIXED

    Thanks All, you guys were all over this!

    The fix was Xcode/preferences/Text Editing/Default File Encoding:
    was set to UTF - 16 I just set it to UTF -8 and BANG! was fixed.


    Thanks again,



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