"Abarbanel, David (US SSA)" wrote: > > I am running gcc v4.1.1 on linux 2.4 and was wondering why I am seeing weird characters around certain identifiers when warnings are printed. Is this normal? See the example below: > > test.cpp: In function âint main()â: > test.cpp:7: error: âcoutâ was not declared in this scope > test.cpp:7: error: âendlâ was not declared in this scope This means that you have a discrepancy between your locale settings and the terminal you are using. For example, many distros set the locale environment variables (LC_*) in the .bashrc type startup files to something like en_US.UTF-8 by default. This tells programs to use US English messages (and sorting collations, etc.) with UTF-8 encoding. But if your terminal does not support the UTF-8 you will get garbage characters when the program tries to use any code points outside of the ascii range, in this case opening and closing quotes. The solution is to set your locale to match the capabilities of the terminal that you are using. If you can't figure this out you can always use the default POSIX/C locale (e.g. "export LC_ALL=C") which will only use standard ascii characters. This has nothing to do with the functionality of gcc or the code it generates, only messages that it prints. Brian
