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Posted: **14 Aug 2025, 13:27**

I hope this is not a NOOB issue, but I did not see it.

I have been using filebot for a few years on windows and it's worked great.

I use a customer tag script of:

```

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{n} - {s00e00} - {t} ({vf}{' '}{ vc =~ /HEVC|265|HEVC MAIN 10/  ? ' X265' : ' h264'}{' ' + any{hdr}{'SDR'} + ' ' } 
{ 
def best = any{audio.max{it.StreamSize.toInteger()}}{null}; def ChannelString = any{(best.'ChannelPositionsString2'.replaceAll(/Object\sBased\s\/|(\d+)?\sobjects\s\/|0.(?=\d.\d)/, '').split(' / ').collect{ it.split('/')*.toDouble().sum() }.max()).toString()}{null}; 
def audioCodec = (ac == 'MP3'|| ac == 'AAC'|| ac == 'EAC3') ? ac : any{best.FormatProfile ? (best.Codec+'.'+best.FormatProfile.replaceAll(/\s?\/.*/)) : null}{best.Codec}{aco}{(audio.Codec+'.'+audio.FormatProfile).join().replaceAll(/\s?\/.*/)}{ac}{'ERROR'}; 
allOf{audioCodec}{any{ChannelString}{channels}}.join(' ') ;
})

```
and again it's worked great.

Now I am switch over to macos. And i have copied it directly and it will not work.

The first line works great but the chunk that does the audio throws and error when I try to save the script of:

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Syntax Error: Unexpected character: ' '

Any ideas?

Much thanks

Posted: **14 Aug 2025, 15:58**

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Syntax Error: Unexpected character: ' '

The error message indeed shows that you have inadvertently added a “ ” U+2028 Line Separator Unicode Character to your format. The application / software you have used to copy to on Windows / paste from on macOS likely added invisible characters along the way (e.g. automatic formatting by your word processor / email client / etc) which mangled the format code.

Here's your format with <0x2028> removed from the code:

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{n} - {s00e00} - {t} ({vf}{' '}{ vc =~ /HEVC|265|HEVC MAIN 10/  ? ' X265' : ' h264'}{' ' + any{hdr}{'SDR'} + ' ' }
{
def best = any{audio.max{it.StreamSize.toInteger()}}{null};
def ChannelString = any{(best.'ChannelPositionsString2'.replaceAll(/Object\sBased\s\/|(\d+)?\sobjects\s\/|0.(?=\d.\d)/, '').split(' / ').collect{ it.split('/')*.toDouble().sum() }.max()).toString()}{null};
def audioCodec = (ac == 'MP3'|| ac == 'AAC'|| ac == 'EAC3') ? ac : any{best.FormatProfile ? (best.Codec+'.'+best.FormatProfile.replaceAll(/\s?\/.*/)) : null}{best.Codec}{aco}{(audio.Codec+'.'+audio.FormatProfile).join().replaceAll(/\s?\/.*/)}{ac}{'ERROR'};
allOf{audioCodec}{any{ChannelString}{channels}}.join(' ');
})

Posted: **15 Aug 2025, 11:53**

Excellent! I was hoping it was something like that. Much thanks!

Posted: **15 Aug 2025, 12:09**

WeBoat wrote: ↑15 Aug 2025, 11:53 I was hoping it was something like that.

So out of curiosity. How did you copy & paste your format from Windows to macOS? Which intermediate software did mangle the plain/text code? Maybe something like Google Keep or Google Docs?

Posted: **15 Aug 2025, 12:11**

I use Jump Desktop to log remotely into the windows box. It allows simple copy paste between the machines. It did mess up the line returns, i had to put them back in. Somewhere in there is most likely where the characters got messed up.

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