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Error message says “Invalid base-… character”, but does not say which characters are valid (say :35<lizmat>) #5854

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p6rt opened this issue Dec 4, 2016 · 4 comments
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Error message says “Invalid base-… character”, but does not say which characters are valid (say :35<lizmat>) #5854

p6rt opened this issue Dec 4, 2016 · 4 comments
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LTA Less Than Awesome; typically an error message that could be better

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p6rt commented Dec 4, 2016

Migrated from rt.perl.org#130255 (status was 'resolved')

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p6rt commented Dec 4, 2016

From @AlexDaniel

Code​:
say :35<lizmat>

Result​:
===SORRY!=== Error while compiling <tmp>
Invalid base-35 character​: liâ��zmat
at <tmp>​:1
------> say :35<lizmat>�<EOL>

More informative would be a message that says what the valid characters are.

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p6rt commented Dec 4, 2016

From @zoffixznet

On Sat, 03 Dec 2016 17​:01​:47 -0800, alex.jakimenko@​gmail.com wrote​:

Code​:
say :35<lizmat>

Result​:
===SORRY!=== Error while compiling <tmp>
Invalid base-35 character​: liâ��zmat
at <tmp>​:1
------> say :35<lizmat>�<EOL>

More informative would be a message that says what the valid characters are.

Fixed in rakudo/rakudo@37ead5a
Tests in Raku/roast@d47d898bfa

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p6rt commented Dec 4, 2016

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

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p6rt commented Dec 4, 2016

@zoffixznet - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

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