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T4 generating garbage ouput, tt file error free.

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Have a look at the output file in binary. It's possible that it's actually in UTF-8 or ASCII, but that Visual Studio thinks it's in UTF-16. Can you post the first few characters of what you'd expect, and their binary output? (If you could post the binary input as well, that would help.)

Jon Skeet 2010-07-04 09:08:02

error generating output, I believe it says. Not 100% sure.I manually opened the file, saved it as unicode and run custom tool again and I got the message i just suggested. Re-save and it's broken again. Notepad reports it as a UTF-8 file, which is apparently the default of VS. Not sure where to proceed from there.

Carl 2010-07-04 09:55:58

I also tried a couple of directives that set its output to UTF-8, too. In the tt code, I mean. No help

Carl 2010-07-04 09:57:57

@Carl: Don't open it in a text editor and save it as a different encoding - open it with a *binary* file editor and post the raw bytes of the contents. But if the tool is giving an error message, then you should post that exact error message] too. You didn't mention that before.

Jon Skeet 2010-07-04 11:05:52

That's because I discovered the error message from further experimentation between our posts. :) Thanks for helping confirm for me it had something to do with the encoding.

Carl 2010-07-04 14:28:10

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Managed to work around this by doing Right Click -> Open With -> Source Code (Text) Editor With Encoding. Picked up fine with Encoding: (Auto-Detect)

Carl 2010-07-04 14:26:35

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