Re: bracket syntax and UTF-8

I guess the problem is that there's BOM at the beginning of the file,
that the FreeMarker parser doesn't treat as white-space (because
according to Character.isWhitespace BOM isn't that), and [#ftl] can't
be preceded by anything but white-space. Hence the parsing error.

So... for now, remove the BOM-s.

Otherwise, guys, I think this issue is frequent enough to warrant some
twists in the parser regarding #ftl. What do you think?


Saturday, August 29, 2009, 1:33:49 PM, mschipperheyn wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I needed to change my project to UTF-8 and converted all my files to do so.
> However, as a result, my freemarker templates don't seem to work anymore. I
> get this error:
>
> freemarker.core.ParseException: Encountered "[#ftl]" at line 1, column 2 in
> home.ftl.
> Was expecting one of:
>     <EOF> 
>     <ATTEMPT> ...
> [...]
> freemarker.core.FMParser.generateParseException(FMParser.java:4697)
>         freemarker.core.FMParser.jj_consume_token(FMParser.java:4568)
>         freemarker.core.FMParser.Root(FMParser.java:2959)
>         freemarker.template.Template.<init>(Template.java:149)
>        
> freemarker.cache.TemplateCache.loadTemplate(TemplateCache.java:448)
>        
> freemarker.cache.TemplateCache.getTemplate(TemplateCache.java:361)
>        
> freemarker.cache.TemplateCache.getTemplate(TemplateCache.java:235)
>        
> freemarker.template.Configuration.getTemplate(Configuration.java:487)
>        
> freemarker.template.Configuration.getTemplate(Configuration.java:459)
>
> org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerView.getTemplate(FreeMarkerView.java:326)
>
> org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerView.getTemplate(FreeMarkerView.java:312)
>
> org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerView.doRender(FreeMarkerView.java:280)
>
> org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerView.renderMergedTemplateModel(FreeMarkerView.java:225)
>
> org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractTemplateView.renderMergedOutputModel(AbstractTemplateView.java:174)
>
> org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView.render(AbstractView.java:257)
>
> org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1183)
> [...]
>
> Any idea on how to resolve this issue?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Marc

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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