FlavorText.xml error on game startup

Invalid character, help me find it and correct it

Hi, I have the following error on game startup, and each time I try to reload a game too.

"...\My Games\GalCiv4\Factions\FlavorText\_23300E1E9E76447F83936856068CE620_FlavorText.xml(594,48): error:
invalid character 0x1F"

I validated my game files with Steam, but it keeps happening. It started doing that after a crash.

I've checked the file, but there's a lot of lines, so it's a little like looking at a needle in a haystack.

How can I find that invalid character?

I thought it could mean line 594, so here it is:

Edit:

Weird, I can't copy/paste the text.
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I would use notepad++ to spot that invalid character.

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Should be 48th char on that line.

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I do not believe steam validates files in the "My Games" directory.

You could try renaming the "My Games\GalCiv4" directory to "My Games\GalCiv4_old" and restarting GalCiv4.

I do not have that file at all in my installation or in "My Games\GalCiv4" directory. So I am wondering if it is a temp file incorrectly generated?

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Publius of NV

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If it's in the Factions folder it's probably from a civ you downloaded, or perhaps created yourself.

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Quoting Dorian Gray II,

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Should be 48th char on that line.

Yes, I see that, but what do I replace it with?

I have "US", what is it supposed to be? Do I just deleted it?

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Yeah, the clue here is that the error comes from "...\My Games\GalCiv4\Factions..." Doing a verify file will not help here. Even reinstalling probably won't either.

What happens if you just remove that file (_23300E1E9E76447F83936856068CE620_FlavorText.xml) entirely from that folder ?

I'm thinking your game should be fine after that.

Normally, there is a name of the custom faction before the _23300E.... but your file doesn't. So that's probably not helping either.

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Quoting Draver,

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Yeah, the clue here is that the error comes from "...\My Games\GalCiv4\Factions..." Doing a verify file will not help here. Even reinstalling probably won't either.

What happens if you just remove that file (_23300E1E9E76447F83936856068CE620_FlavorText.xml) entirely from that folder ?

I'm thinking your game should be fine after that.

Normally, there is a name of the custom faction before the _23300E.... but your file doesn't. So that's probably not helping either.

I removed the "US" characters and it fixed the problem. No weird occurences so far.

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Quoting Falkoner,

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I removed the "US" characters and it fixed the problem. No weird occurences so far.

Awesome!

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