I feel better but it isn't great news. This is a ledger bug. Putting unicode spaces on empty lines confuses ledger. I will put it in bug zilla.
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Craig Earls <ender...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks. I will look into this. > > > On Monday, December 22, 2014, Robert Carlsen < > princessandsuper...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Any of the unicode space characters on this page - >> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/spaces.html - seem to trigger the >> issue. I've only tried putting them on lines outside of transactions FWIW. >> >> On Saturday, November 8, 2014 10:29:20 PM UTC-6, Craig Earls wrote: >>> >>> Can you tell me what characters? If ledger wasn't choking on them, >>> neither should ledger mode >>> >>> On Saturday, November 8, 2014, Robert Carlsen <princessa...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Someone had been inserting strange, invisible unicode characters into >>>> my journal. Sorry for the noise - and long, lost reply. >>>> >>>> On Friday, August 8, 2014 9:51:52 PM UTC-5, Craig Earls wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I can't reproduce this behavior. What library versions are you using? >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Robert Carlsen >>>>> <princessa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> > When the first line of my ledger file is blank, I get this error: >>>>> > >>>>> > While parsing file "/home/robert/git/money/rwc-finances.ledger", >>>>> line 1: >>>>> > Error: Directive '' requires an argument >>>>> > >>>>> > Removing the initial blank line fixes the issue. >>>>> > >>>>> > OS: x86_64 arch linux >>>>> > Ledger version 3.0.2-20140507 >>>>> > >>>>> > -- >>>>> > >>>>> > --- >>>>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups >>>>> > "Ledger" group. >>>>> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>> send an >>>>> > email to ledger-cli+...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ >>>>> enderw88.wordpress.com >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> --- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Ledger" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ >>> enderw88.wordpress.com >>> >> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ledger" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > -- > Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ > enderw88.wordpress.com > -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.com -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.