Quote Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios
I can assure you that Vista has nothing to do with RTW's (quite frankly, limited) ability to tell you what went wrong. (Ever tried to copy a beta of EB1.0 file by file; folder by folder over to see where the CTD came from? ... I have... )

However now you mention it: export_descr_characters_traits.txt (edct from now on!) is very sensitive. Basically put: if you tell Notepad to encode it's txt files in Unicode, and you then proceed to edit the edct --> CTD.

However, and here is where it becomes rather enjoyable, if you edit the Description files in anything but Unicode (UTF-8) you will get all sorts of weird 'character does not exist' symbols...

And for some files it doesn't make a blind bit of difference...?

So I suggest that if you encounter a CTD to what appears to've been a very, very non-CTD-able change (adding a comment on a separate line for instance; commenting out a Hidden attribute somewhere) --> try and change the encoding of your file... (Requires you to save as & overwrite the old one.)

I love you Tellos. My Notepad was set to encode things in unicode, which I've apparently edited everything in, including the edct, in that code. That would explain why simple additions to it that I knew were 99.9 percent likely to NOT CTD, made it CTD.