BIRD unknown character using text editor

Fabiano D'Agostino fabiano.dagostino96 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 2 14:04:43 CEST 2020


Hey Adam,
thank you, I was able to solve using dos2unix command.

Fabiano

Il giorno mar 2 giu 2020 alle ore 14:03 Adam Thompson <
athompson at merlin.mb.ca> ha scritto:

> Ensure your text editor is saving the file in UTF-8 (which is not the
> default on Windows).
> The default encoding on Windows is UTF-16 which is not compatible with
> most UNIX software.
> In Win10 Notepad, the File->Save As dialog has an Encoding drop-down where
> you can change it.
> -Adam
>
> On Jun. 2, 2020 06:56, Fabiano D'Agostino <fabiano.dagostino96 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> I am using a text editor on Windows to edit the bird.conf. When I get my
> bird.conf in my linux machine and I try bird -p I get this error at the end
> of the line:
> Unknown character
>
> But everything is right.
>
> How can I solve?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Fabiano
>
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