Re: Newbie problem: lexical error when compiling

On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 10:05:53PM +0200, Wagner Ferenc wrote:

David Schonberger writes:

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'ghc -o hello hello.hs' and received the following error: hello.hs:1:0 lexical error at character '\65279'.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark Somehow you'll have to persuade you editor not to use the BOM, or make GHC accept it... Neither of which I can help you.

I've filed a bug here: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1744 Thanks Ian