Game broken, please help!

[Xanthippus]

Hi there, I recently bought Armageddon and have been playing the latest C.O.R.E release. Everything had been going fine, I was playing as Sweden and had joined the Axis, we were killing the USSR and had just occupied everything up to Stalingrad. I saved the game and quit as I was done playing for the time being, and as it went onto the next screen with the scores for Axis, Allies and Comintern the program crashed. I thought nothing of it, but now whenever I try and load the save game I get this error:

I have tried loading the autosave, but it gives me the same error. The old autosave didn't give me an error, but the game just crashed before it finished loading. Any help would be much appreciated!

 

[Hagar]

You are using the 1.2 patch for ARM, right?

 

[Xanthippus]

Yes, I downloaded the 1.2 patch from gamers gate.

 

[Hagar]

Could you upload your save, preferably in a compressed file (ZIP, RAR) and upload it into Mantis so we can have a look at it?

 

[Xanthippus]

I went to the Mantis link in your sig and tried to create an account, but the link appears to be dead for creating an account, I got to the login box for Mantis fine. It just says Not Found when I try to go to the sign up page.

However I did zip my save and uploaded it here: http://www.mediafire.com/?jntmnj3ivty

 

[Hagar]

The problem appears to be at line 376690 in the save file (use Notepad++ to see it more easily), where there are some illegal characters in the unit name:
name = "VIII Divisin de Montaa 'Luzuriaga'"" <-- These funny characters after the '" marks, represented as [ENQ][FS][BEL] in Notepad++. We've verified that the save loads fine after removing these.

Within the 0.3.2.3 release the unitnames file is inadvertively UTF-8 format rather than ANSI (which it should be), so maybe that explains the appearance of the illegal characters. It certainly explains why the name isn't correctly displayed as "VIII División de Montaña 'Luzuriaga'". Easily fixed using Notepad++ though, simply by creating a new ANSI-format file and copy/paste the UTF-8 contect into it.