node.js SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token

Question

I have downloaded and installed node.js from https://nodejs.org/en/. I want to run a js file:

console.log(\'hello\');

I run nod

Answer 1

The problem was that I created the file by redirecting output from echo command in powershell. It had UTF-16 LE encoding, should be UTF-8

Answer 2

Did you copy some unicode characters from word or something?

try retyping the console.log('hello') Something like this has happened to me before, when I copied some code from a word document.