Replaced lua file not working

[Kuupora]

Hello,

I have this little problem with my mod: When I try to run it, it get the following error in Lua.log:

[2957.903] Syntax Error:<file path>\UnitFlagManager.lua:1: unexpected symbol near 'ï'
[2957.903] Runtime Error: Error loading <file path>\UnitFlagManager.lua

Unit flag icons don't load at all when I have my mod activated. As far as I know the file paths are okay. I googled "unexpected symbol near 'ï'" problem and found that it might be caused by byte order mark in the code file. I also tried to convert UnitFlagManager.lua to "UTF-8 without BOM" and ANSI, (with notepad++) but that didn't help.

First I thought this could be caused by my user name becuse there was "ä" character. I changed that to no avail.

I have tried turning VFS on and off, it doesn't make any difference.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[Pazyryk]

I modded for weeks with "Éa" in my mod's project name. Everything was fine (the mod could be built and modified) until I tried to add a new file. Then I saw the error above (except that I saw a "box" character in the error line; I can't remember if it was where you see 'i' or between "symbol" and "near"). The É wasn't anywhere in the file text but I guess it was in the file metadata. Sounds close to your situation. When I changed the project name everything was fine again.

Note: these characters work fine inside an xml file (I use them in many texts).

 

[Kuupora]

Thanks for your answer! It seems my problem was after all the byte order mark within the UTF-8 encoded lua file. For some reason my ModBuddy chose to save lua files with wrong encoding crazyeye. I finally got rid of it by converting the encoding in notepad++ to "UTF-8 without BOM" and save as -> overwrite the existing file. (regular save didn't do the trick)

There is also a following the procedure to do the same thing within Modbuddy (actually visual studio):

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5406172/utf-8-without-bom

However that method didn't work for me. Only the notepad++ method works.