dynarewp036.m syntax error >>> 

[kgarb]

I'm trying to run the mod file for dynare working paper 36 ("Tax Reduction Policies of the Productive Sector and Its Impacts on Brazilian Economy"), but when I do I get the following error:

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error: invalid character '∩' (ASCII 239) near line 226, column 2
parse error near line 226 of file dynarewp036.m

  syntax error

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error: called from:
error:   c:\dynare\4.4.3\matlab\dynare.m at line 180, column 1


I haven't made any changes to the .mod file, and I'm using Dynare 4.4.3 and Octave 3.8.4. There's nothing in the .mod file itself that is jumping out at me as being a problem, any thoughts on what could be causing this? As a note, opening dynarewp036.m and deleting line 226 does nothing, Dynare just re-creates the file with the same error when you run dynarewp036.mod again.

Files are attached.

Thank you in advance for your comments!

[jpfeifer]

Immediately in the first line of your model file before the comment slashes (//) there are a few weird characters:



Please delete them.

[kgarb]

What program are you using to look at the mod file? I checked it in Notepad, Notepad++ (ANSI, UTF-8 without BOM, UTF-8, and OEM 860: Portuguese encodings), GNU emacs-24.5, gvim 7.4 and Octave 3.8.2 and those characters aren't showing up for me in the first line in any of those programs.

*I copied the file to another program, omitting the first couple of characters to prevent carrying those invisible characters over and it works. Strange that I can't see those though.

[jpfeifer]

I used Matlab