Using Windows? Try opening in Notepad and go Save As and change Encoding to ANSI.
Cheers Chris On Nov 20, 10:38 am, "Michel Bechelani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Michael > > Sorry, but what is an byte-order-mark? And how do I take it away from the > file? I'm using Notepad or Visual Studio in a Windows XP System to create > the manifest. > > Thank you. > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Michael Nordman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > I've opened an issue to track this... > >http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=765 > > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Michael Nordman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > >> Just a guess, does the file contain unicode byte-order-marks? The JSON > >> parser we're using fails if the byte stream contains BOM characters, and > >> our > >> code does not advance past any BOM prior to handing off to the parser. > > >> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Bechelani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > >>> Hello, > > >>> I'm new to Gears. I'm trying to create a managed store. However I'm > >>> getting the following error: > > >>> Invalid manifest - * Line 1, Column 1 > >>> Syntax error: value, object or array expected. > > >>> The manifest file I'm using is a .txt file saved with UTF-8 encoding > >>> and the contents is: > >>> { > >>> // version of the manifest file format > >>> "betaManifestVersion": 1, > > >>> // version of the set of resources described in this manifest file > >>> "version": "v0.1", > > >>> // optional > >>> // If the store specifies a requiredCookie, when a request would hit > >>> // an entry contained in the manifest except the requiredCookie is > >>> // not present, the local server responds with a redirect to this > >>> URL. > >>> //"redirectUrl": "login.html", > > >>> // URLs to be cached (URLs are given relative to the manifest URL) > >>> "entries": [ > >>> { "url": "/Scripts/firebug.js" }, > >>> { "url": "/Scripts/jquery-1.2.6.js" }, > >>> { "url": "/Scripts/jquery.simplemodal.js" }, > >>> { "url": "/App_Themes/Main/site.css" }, > >>> { "url": "/App_Themes/Main/home.css" }, > >>> { "url": "/App_Themes/Main/gears.css" }, > >>> { "url": "/App_Themes/Main/contact_ie.css" }, > >>> { "url": "/App_Themes/Main/contact.css" }, > >>> { "url": "/App_Themes/Images/green_up.gif" }, > >>> { "url": "/App_Themes/Images/mainPanelLoading.gif" }, > >>> { "url": "/App_Themes/Images/red_down.gif" }, > >>> { "url": "/App_Themes/Images/sideBarLoading.gif" } > >>> ] > >>> } > > >>> I'll appreciate any help on this.
