Item8788: illegal chars in some .js files kills yuicompressor

These two files failed as follows (when doing build.pl release with yuicompressor):

• pub/System/JQueryPlugin/plugins/hoverintent/jquery.hoverIntent.uncompressed.js
• pub/System/JQueryPlugin/plugins/maskedinput/jquery.maskedinput.uncompressed.js

Building release 3.41 of JQueryPlugin, from version 6967 (2010-03-28)

[ERROR] 1:2:illegal character

[ERROR] 1:2:syntax error

[ERROR] 1:3:illegal character

[ERROR] 1:0:Compilation produced 3 syntax errors.
org.mozilla.javascript.EvaluatorException: Compilation produced 3 syntax errors.
   at com.yahoo.platform.yui.compressor.YUICompressor$1.runtimeError(YUICompressor.java:135)
   at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.parse(Parser.java:410)
   at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.parse(Parser.java:355)
   at com.yahoo.platform.yui.compressor.JavaScriptCompressor.parse(JavaScriptCompressor.java:312)
   at com.yahoo.platform.yui.compressor.JavaScriptCompressor.<init>(JavaScriptCompressor.java:533)
   at com.yahoo.platform.yui.compressor.YUICompressor.main(YUICompressor.java:112)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
   at com.yahoo.platform.yui.compressor.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:20)
Generated /usr/local/src/svn.foswiki.org/trunk/JQueryPlugin/pub/System/JQueryPlugin/plugins/maskedinput/jquery.maskedinput.js from /usr/local/src/svn.foswiki.org/trunk/JQueryPlugin/pub/System/JQueryPlugin/plugins/maskedinput/jquery.maskedinput.uncompressed.js
/usr/local/src/svn.foswiki.org/trunk/JQueryPlugin/pub/System/JQueryPlugin/plugins/maskedinput/jquery.maskedinput.js does not exist at /usr/local/src/svn.foswiki.org/trunk/core/lib/Foswiki/Contrib/Build.pm line 1579.

Did the following to fix them

• Edit in vim
• set encoding=cp437
• set set fileencoding=latin1
• x

-- PaulHarvey - 28 Mar 2010

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