Chrome says my extension's manifest file is missing or unreadable

Question

I\'m a new chrome extension developer, and I was going through the Chrome tutorial on making a \"Hello World\" extension, here\'s my code:

     {
      \"name\":         


        

Answer 1

My problem was slightly different.

By default Eclipse saved my manifest.json as an ANSI encoded text file.

Solution:

• Open in Notepad
• File -> Save As
• select UTF-8 from the encoding drop-down in the bottom left.
• Save