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  • CBM EL230 Errors found in MOD submission, see messages:

    From Vincent Coen@2:250/1 to Paul Hayton on Wed Apr 22 01:30:00 2020

    EL230 Errors found in MOD submission, see messages:

    EL219 Error Unknown keyword found: SUBJ
    EL224 Error missing SUBJect.



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  • From Vincent Coen@2:250/1 to Paul Hayton on Wed Apr 22 16:29:48 2020
    Hello Paul!

    Wednesday April 22 2020 01:30, I wrote to you:


    EL230 Errors found in MOD submission, see messages:

    EL219 Error Unknown keyword found: SUBJ
    EL224 Error missing SUBJect.


    This file has the first 3 characters that are NOT normal text.

    They are in fact (in hex) : ef bb bf

    The first 16 chars are (in Hex and display form) :

    00000000 ef bb bf 53 55 42 4a 20 4d 4f 44 2d 55 50 44 0d |...SUBJ MOD-UPD.|

    The dots give the clue but the hex chars ef bb bf are not A- Z, a - z, 0 - 9 and space etc.

    Only use a text editor and not a word processor type editor.

    Vincent

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  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to Vincent Coen on Wed Apr 22 18:40:32 2020
    Hi Vincent,

    On 2020-04-22 16:29:49, you wrote to Paul Hayton:

    This file has the first 3 characters that are NOT normal text.

    They are in fact (in hex) : ef bb bf

    The first 16 chars are (in Hex and display form) :

    00000000 ef bb bf 53 55 42 4a 20 4d 4f 44 2d 55 50 44 0d |...SUBJ MOD-UPD.|

    The dots give the clue but the hex chars ef bb bf are not A- Z, a - z, 0 - 9 and space etc.

    Only use a text editor and not a word processor type editor.

    It's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark#UTF-8

    Since your on linux it should be easy to filter them out in your scripts:

    https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/381230/how-can-i-remove-the-bom-from-a-utf-8-file


    Bye, Wilfred.

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    * Origin: FMail development HQ (2:280/464)
  • From Vincent Coen@2:250/1 to Wilfred van Velzen on Wed Apr 22 18:34:18 2020
    Hello Wilfred!

    Wednesday April 22 2020 18:40, you wrote to me:

    Hi Vincent,

    On 2020-04-22 16:29:49, you wrote to Paul Hayton:

    This file has the first 3 characters that are NOT normal text.

    They are in fact (in hex) : ef bb bf

    The first 16 chars are (in Hex and display form) :

    00000000 ef bb bf 53 55 42 4a 20 4d 4f 44 2d 55 50 44 0d
    |...SUBJ MOD-UPD.|

    The dots give the clue but the hex chars ef bb bf are not A- Z, a
    - z, 0 - 9 and space etc.

    Only use a text editor and not a word processor type editor.

    It's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark#UTF-8

    Since your on linux it should be easy to filter them out in your
    scripts:

    https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/381230/how-can-i-remove-the-b om-from-a-utf-8-file


    It is not a script but a program and I cannot examine every character in a submission for valid chars as the range outside a-x, A-Z, 0-9 is too much to screen for. Then there is the issue of what to do , more forwards 1 until a vaild char is presented ?

    The correct solution is to use a text editor in Windows, *nix or any other platform..

    If I can do it with my systems ( Linux, Win 10, OSX, IBM ) then I have to assume every one else can.

    Vincent

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  • From Paul Hayton@3:770/100 to Wilfred van Velzen on Thu Apr 23 12:19:52 2020
    On 22 Apr 2020 at 06:40p, Wilfred van Velzen pondered and said...

    It's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark#UTF-8


    Thanks, good spotting.

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  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to Paul Hayton on Thu Apr 23 09:54:42 2020
    Hi Paul,

    On 2020-04-23 12:19:52, you wrote to me:

    It's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark#UTF-8

    Thanks, good spotting.

    If I remember correctly it happend to a part of the z2 nodelist in the past. So
    I've seen it before.

    For people sending in messages containing these codes it might be as simple as to configuring a different character encoding in their editor (so not use utf-8).

    Bye, Wilfred.

    --- FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815
    * Origin: FMail development HQ (2:280/464)
  • From Vincent Coen@2:250/1 to Wilfred van Velzen on Thu Apr 23 13:31:48 2020
    Hello Wilfred!

    Thursday April 23 2020 09:54, you wrote to Paul Hayton:

    Hi Paul,

    On 2020-04-23 12:19:52, you wrote to me:

    It's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark#UTF-8

    Thanks, good spotting.

    If I remember correctly it happend to a part of the z2 nodelist in the
    past. So I've seen it before.

    For people sending in messages containing these codes it might be as
    simple as to configuring a different character encoding in their
    editor (so not use utf-8).

    I have now made a change to program (#040) to detect this data sequence and if found more the data over 3 chars before processing. Well thats the intention testing it shortly with the original CBM UPD file.


    Vincent

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  • From Vincent Coen@2:250/1 to Paul Hayton on Thu Apr 23 13:38:00 2020

    EL230 Errors found in MOD submission, see messages:

    EL219 Error Unknown keyword found: D
    EL224 Error missing SUBJect.



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