Re: Solved (Re: Trouble installer package for gnuplot for mingw( Inno Setup error))

[sfeam <sf...@us...>]

On Monday, 11 April 2016 10:46:33 AM Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> > 
> I found a trash character at the top of gnuplot.iss.
> (I do not know why it exists.)
> I deleted it and "make installer" worked without problem.

The initial character was the Windows <BOM> marker (Byte Order Mark)
that some Windows programs place at the start of a file to indicate that the
file contains unicode (e.g. UTF-8 or UTF-16) text.  Although the original intent
of the BOM was to make files more portable, in practice it has the opposite
effect  (as you found out)!

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark

I have removed it from the cvs copy of win/gnuplot.iss

	Ethan