Fatal: illegal character "'($C2)

[VTwin]

On my PowerBook, Mac OS 10.11.5,  running Ubuntu 16.04 LT on VirtualBox,  I can not reproduce the error.

Maybe a keyboard malfunction?

[Handoko]

Maybe a keyboard malfunction?

The OP said the problem only happens when running Lazarus on his Mac, not other software. So it should not be hardware problem.

@ThierryJ
Can you find another Mac machine (maybe borrow from your friend) and test on it?

[Thaddy]

@Thierry
I can not reproduce it on my Mac mini. That is unless I set an A circonflex in the sourcecode on purpose.
The compiler gives me the EXACT line and the EXACT position where I put it (as I wrote before).
Send us a screenshot of what the compiler output is.

[engkin]

@Thaddy, try Option+Space

[ThierryJ]

@mercurhyo : I have already described it. The behavior is the same.
@Thaddy : I have joined a pdf with screen copies of the problem with a previous message.
@Handoko : You are right. I just checked with another, older Apple keyboard, the problem is the same.

In the mean time I have done another test : I have created a fresh Writer document with LibreOffice and put inside the magical phrase, For i := 0 To High(toto) Do something.
Than I have opened the document package, unpacked the file content.xml and fed it to ghex. Everything is perfect, the spaces are 32...

Than I have restarted a new Lazarus project, a new Unit with a single Class. The problem occurred only once right after the "=" in TMyClass = Class...
Than I have created another Class, and all the spaces following = have been replaced.
The attached file shows this.

Finally I have tried to write the same "Class" in a Windows 10 Virtual Machine, and it works...

To be short, the conflict may be with Lazarus running on Debian with a Swiss French keyboard. But I cannot investigate further, I don't have the skills to do it by myself.

Any idea welcome, thanks all for your time.