Re: parse error

[Nicholas Jankowski]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 2:06 PM Ian McCallion <address@hidden> wrote:

On Wednesday, 29 April 2020, Nicholas Jankowski <address@hidden> wrote:

i have  reinstalled notepad ++  on my computer. When use  notepad ++ to write a  program I can  run this program  from the command-line ! 

When i write the same program with octave’s  built-in-editor I still get the same old error code    

There's definitely a strange encoding/locality issue setup on your machine.  even in this email I'm seeing the text above as the following (and attached):

 but copy and paste into any other programs on my computer, it sees:

i have reinstalled notepad ++ on my computer. When use notepad ++ to write a program I can run this program from the command-line ! When i write the same program with octave’s built-in-editor I still get the same old error code

I'm note sure knowing this really helps but I have no problem witrh Martin's message.

so that display was just some font change. the lettering i see above is font=Symbol, so copied/pasted anywhere else it looks fine, and depending on your email settings might look fine.

looking at the original email, the plaintext section is:

--Apple-Mail=_AEBB7B8F-5775-49CB-B581-8F78EE49F872
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

<snip>

i have  reinstalled notepad ++  on my computer. When use  notepad ++ to wri=
te a  program I can  run this program  from the command-line !=20
When i write the same program with octave=E2=80=99s  built-in-editor I stil=
l get the same old error code   =20

which displays fine, but the MIME/html section:

--Apple-Mail=_AEBB7B8F-5775-49CB-B581-8F78EE49F872
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

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ave &nbsp;reinstalled notepad&nbsp;<span style=3D"font-family: Symbol;" cla=
ss=3D"">+</span><font face=3D"Symbol" class=3D"">+ &nbsp;on my computer. Wh=
en use &nbsp;</font>notepad&nbsp;<span style=3D"font-family: Symbol;" class=
=3D"">+</span><font face=3D"Symbol" class=3D"">+ to write a &nbsp;program I=
 can &nbsp;run this program &nbsp;from the&nbsp;command-line !&nbsp;</font>=
</div><div><font face=3D"Symbol" class=3D"">When i write the same program w=
ith octave=E2=80=99s &nbsp;built-in-editor I still get the same old error c=
ode &nbsp; &nbsp;</font></div>

followed by a lot of OfficeDocument XML code.

I trimmed out some of the headers and attached a text file version with the email contents.  I thought it might be related encoding/locality issue but now I'm guessing it's some oddity caused by your "Mail for Windows 10" client.

If you can find that option, I would recommend using a plain-text option for email from within that mail client. 

 

garbledmessage.txt
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