error: stray '\XXX' in program : Why?

Question

I\'m writing a little program in C++, and come across a strange error :

src/Makefile/Tool.cpp:42:3: error: stray ‘\\302’ in program
src/Makefile/Tool.cpp:42         


        

Answer 1

For me this problem came from copying my code over from a web browser.

I tried doing a :%s/ / /g in vim to replace all spaces with real spaces but this has failed.

I deleted the leading whitespace of all lines reporting this error and inserted the space characters again. This is labour intensive but appears to be the only solution I could find.