Sunday, April 15, 2012

Fix Illegal character in input file when installing JEDI 3.45

Fix Illegal character in input file when installing JEDI 3.45 for Delphi 7.

Error Messages :
jvcl\run\JvPageSetup.pas(1) Error: Illegal character in input file: 'ï' ($EF)
JvDlgs.dpk(86) Fatal: Could not compile used unit '..\..\run\JvPageSetup.pas'

jvcl\run\JvDialogs.pas(1) Error: Illegal character in input file: 'ï' ($EF)
JvDlgs.dpk(86) Fatal: Could not compile used unit '..\..\run\JvDialogs.pas'

How to fix :
Open the JvPageSetup.pas and JvDialogs.pas using Notepad++



and change the encoding from UTF-8 into ANSI for both files, save them. And run the install.bat again. Now your installation won't give any error message and successful.