error: stray '\302' in program

Question

I\'m using Code::Blocks on Ubuntu 10.10. I have connected a Mac keyboard and set the keyboard settings to \"Swiss German Mac\". Now whenever I write an equals sign, followed

Answer 1

'\302' is C notation for the octal number 302₈, which equals C2₁₆ and 194₁₀. So it's not ASCII.

Which character it maps to depends on the encoding. In Latin-1, it's the  character, for instance.