Rstudio Editor editor declares invalid or multibyte error on opening

RStudio IDE
1

Rstudio 1.3.172 running on Ubuntu 18 declares an error on attempting to open a .java file:

"Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character"

and then fails (quite sensibly given the error) to load the file to the editor.

However, when I open the same file in vi I see no multibyte characters.

Could they be hiding?
Should I be searching for an incomplete or invalid multi-byte or wide in some way other than simple visual inspection?
What might be triggering Rstudio to detect this condition other than the stated error?

Any suggestions?

2

Any chance you could share the file with us, so we could try and reproduce?

3

Yes. Bitbucket

I am running Rstudio IDE 1.3.299 on an unremarkable Ubuntu 18. box.

4

It looks like an escape character ^X was written in the "MODE" string here:

https://bitbucket.org/oscaremr/oscar/src/7c4794bc81b0346e00241b5721de86953c9a97f8/src/main/java/oscar/oscarBilling/ca/bc/Teleplan/TeleplanAPI.java#lines-231

and that is causing RStudio to detect this as a 'binary' file. In particular, it causes the file utility to believe that the file is binary, e.g.

$ file --dereference --mime --brief TeleplanAPI.java
application/octet-stream; charset=binary

Removing that character seems to fix things up for me.

5

This topic was automatically closed 21 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.