On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:27:49 -0500 Andy Howell <AndyHowell at austin.rr.com> wrote: > Marcus, > > The offending characters are left and right single quotes, E2 80 98, > and E2 80 99. Why GCC is using these I don't know. Probably because LANG or LC_CTYPE in the environment contains "UTF-8". Ian