Problems with my first game

[Albie]

Hi.

I just tried to run the following code:

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init:
    image acordando = Image("a237.jpg")

label start:

    scene acordando

    "Depois de algum tempo desacordado, acordei."

	

For that, I got the error message:

I'm sorry, but an exception occured while executing your Ren'Py
script.

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 333-335: invalid data

While loading the script.

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

File "run_game.py", line 61, in main
File "renpy\main.pyc", line 149, in main
File "renpy\script.pyc", line 189, in load_script
File "renpy\script.pyc", line 83, in __init__
File "renpy\script.pyc", line 109, in load_file
File "renpy\parser.pyc", line 1188, in parse
File "renpy\parser.pyc", line 37, in list_logical_lines
File "codecs.pyc", line 380, in read
File "codecs.pyc", line 253, in read
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 333-335: invalid data

While loading the script.

Ren'Py Version: Ren'Py 4.7

Could you help me finding out what I am doing wrong? Thanks

[PyTom]

Although it's not obvious from the snippet, it does look like you used some sort of international character (perhaps some sort of accent or something... I don't know offhand which language you're using... perhaps because I'm tired).

If you want to use your favorite language with Ren'Py, you'll have to save in the coding that supports all languages, UTF-8. How to do so varies by text editor. If you're using notepad on a recent version of Windows, the encoding is (IIRC) in the Save As box. If you're using SciTE, then the encoding can be chosen from the file menu.

Either way, if you save as UTF-8, things will probably start working. The error message, BTW, occurs 333 characters into the file, so I think that there's probably more to your script than you posted here.

[Albie]

Hi, Tom,

Thank you very much for your response.

I thought it should be something like that (the encoding), so I had changed the encoding to utf8 already.

But the problem continued, but your second comment solved it all;

I had made a first test with lots of lines and, since I was getting the utf message, I made a copy of the file with Windows interface, generating a "Copy of script.rpy" file in my game directory!!!

So the problem was that this "backup" (which has of course more thatn 333 chars) was getting loaded and generating the error.

Anyway, thank you for helping me! BTW - the language I used is Portuguese.

Best Regards,

Albie