Detecting spurious characters (was: svn commit: r1840762 - /jmeter/trunk/src/core/org/apache/jmeter/JMeter.java)

[sebb <se...@gmail.com>]

On 13 September 2018 at 11:20, Felix Schumacher
<fe...@internetallee.de> wrote:
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> Am 13. September 2018 12:11:31 MESZ schrieb sebb <se...@gmail.com>:
>>Maybe we need to occasionally scan source files for non-ASCII
>>characters?
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> I thought so, too.
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> In vim one can use listchars to highlight different whitespace characters. Will add 'nbsp' to my local vim setup.
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In GNU grep one can use the following to show the lines

grep --color=auto -r -P -n -I '[\x80-\xFF]' src/

This does not work on macOS as that does not support -P; I had to use
ggrep (homebrew);
unfortunately that does no appear to want to highlight spaces.

Almost all the problem lines I found relate to logging, which suggests
a common cause (possibly copy-paste)

I'll see if I can fix those.

S.