[Scilab-users] Nightmare with double quotes.

[Antoine Monmayrant]

On 09/28/2014 11:08 PM, amorales wrote:
> Hi:
> Both commands were written on the same scilab window. Do you see the
> difference?
>
> -->write(6,string(”Variable x:”))
>                  !--error 2
> Invalid factor.
>
>
>
> -->write(6,string("Variable x:"))
> Variable x:
>
>
> This can be a nightmare if you don't know that there are two kinds of double
> quotes.
> By writing both commands on emacs you can see the difference.
>
>
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I would report this as a bug: the error message is not clear, it's even 
misleading.
I can understand that Scilab does not support all the unicode 
characters, but at least the error message should help the user finding 
what the problem is.

Antoine