POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.binaries.images: Illegal character in input file?: Re: Illegal character in input file?

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From: clipka
Date: 26 Dec 2014 01:54:03
Message: <549d060b$1@news.povray.org>

Am 26.12.2014 um 03:39 schrieb Jörg 'Yadgar' Bleimann:
> Hi(gh)!
>
> Inspired by Christian Froeschlin's link to the new high-quality JPL
> mosaic maps of Saturnian moons, I tried to re-activate my PoVSolar
> project, starting with view of Mimas - but all I got on
>
> povray +ipovsolar.pov +opovsolar.png +fn +h768 +w1024 +a0.3
>
> was this:
>
> Parse Error: Illegal character in input file, value is ffffffef.
>
> I initially thought it was because of non-standard ASCII characters in
> the comments at the beginning - but even after replacing them, the error
> message prevailed.

Are you sure it is not fffffeff?

Your file is UTF8-encoded with a leading Byte Order Mark (zero-width 
non-breaking space, U+FEFF), which might give POV-Ray trouble; it also 
might erroneously be displayed as "fffffeff" rather than "feff".

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