On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 21:50 +0100, David Balla wrote: > Hi, > > I get following message when compileing my program: > myfile.h:1: error: stray '\239' in program > myfile.h:1: error: stray '\187' in program > myfile.h:1: error: stray '\191' in program > > Maybe it's something trivial, but I couldn't find the explanation of > this error message. Please, help me out. > > David > Often I have found this to be non-printable characters in a source file. In this case look on line 1 of myfile.h. If your text editor cannot see them you either have to turn on showing non printable characters (e.g. ^C) or use hexedit to review the file. Once you clear these out of the file you should be able to attempting compiling. Stephen