Errors using yuicompressor

Question

I am getting some errors when trying to run yuicompressor.

it says:

[error] 1:2:illegal character
[error] 1:2:syntax error
[error] 1:3 illegal character

Could this be because I am saving it as the wrong encoding or something?

Could you at least post the offending line? The first line, assuming it doesn't count from zero? — Mark Rushakoff, Jun 24 '09 at 03:14

score 21 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 26 '09 at 03:09

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I have seen issues with YUICompressor and files that are saved in UTF-8 with the Byte Order Mark (BOM). The default for Visual Studio 2008 seems to be to save them this way. To solve it, I had to save the file with a different encoding. In VS2008, this was File - Advanced Save Options - Encoding : Unicode (UTF-8 without signature).

answered Jun 26 '09 at 03:09

Kevin Hakanson

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Anyone know if it's possible to use this encoding when outputting a file via Powershell? I'm concatenating my files with Powershell, and like most apps it likes to use the BOM. – JoshNaro Nov 22 '10 at 16:24

score 8 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 02 '16 at 13:56

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I ran across this issue today. Another fix is to provide the --charset utf-8 option on the command line.

edited Jun 02 '16 at 13:56

Liam

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answered Jul 24 '09 at 19:42

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Setting the charset option did not help me with this issue. Only Kevin's answer (the accepted one) seems to work for me. – JoshNaro Nov 22 '10 at 16:13
+1 - This worked great for me. (VS 2010, Windows 7, compressor version 2.4.2) – James Skemp Feb 22 '11 at 22:59
This worked for me too (VS2005, Windows XP, compressor version 2.4.2) – Ryan Kinal Mar 17 '11 at 13:45

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 30 '09 at 19:03

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In addition to saving under "UTF-8 without signature encoding", I had to switch to Windows style line endings (CR LF).

answered Jun 30 '09 at 19:03

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 18 '10 at 14:07

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While viewing the .js file in Visual Studio 2008... File -> Advanced Save Options -> Unicode (UTF-8 without signature).

answered Aug 18 '10 at 14:07

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 09 '16 at 16:07

I've had the same problem with encodings using the .NET version of the YuiCompressor.

Fixed adding the EncodingType="UTF8" in my configuration file:

<CssCompressorTask        EncodingType="UTF8" SourceFiles="@(CssFiles)"        OutputFile="path\styles.min.css" />
<JavaScriptCompressorTask EncodingType="UTF8" SourceFiles="@(JavaScriptFiles)" OutputFile="path\scripts.min.js" />

For more encoding options, see the docs.

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 22 '10 at 17:18

Just in case anyone is using Powershell to concatenate files, I used the following Powershell script to circumvent this problem:

Get-Content `
JavaScript/file01.js,`
JavaScript/file02.js,`
JavaScript/file03.js `
 | Set-Content JavaScript/Concat.js -Encoding Ascii

java.exe -jar ../../yuicompressor/build/yuicompressor-2.4.2.jar JavaScript/Concat.js -o JavaScript/Concat.min.js preserve-semi --charset ascii --type js

Notice the ascii encoding parameters on both the concatenation and YUICompressor call.

Errors using yuicompressor

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