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

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

> From: sfeam
> To: gnuplot-beta Tatsuro MATSUOKA

> Cc: bmaerkisch
> Date: 2016/4/11, Mon 12:22
> Subject: Re: Solved (Re: Trouble installer package for gnuplot for mingw( Inno Setup error))
> 
> 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

I have confirmed the fix in the current cvs.
Thanks!

Tatsuro