Beginner: Can't run the HelloWorld tutorial

[tv_user]

Hello,
I'm an absolute beginner when it comes to LOVE and Lua, but I have some previous programming experience. Recently I got a macbook and I searched for a decent 2D engine to play a little bit, and I found this awesome engine (congrats!). The problem is, I downloaded the 0.8.0 version for Mac OS X, and tried to follow the "tutorial" for the stupidly simple HelloWorld program, but (jokes on me), I turned out to be the stupid - I can't get it to work!
Here's what I did:

I created a simple main.txt file with the code

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function love.draw()
    love.graphics.print('Hello World!', 400, 300)
end

and then I changed the file extension to .lua. I dragged the folder where it was (and that contained nothing else), to the LOVE.app I previously downloaded and it keeps giving me the same error: "graphics.lua:1273: Deconding error Invalid UTF-8"

I just don't get it! What am I doing wrong? (or not doing) If it helps, i'm running OS X Lion 10.7.4

Thanks in advance.

[Nixola]

You have to save the .lua file using the UTF-8 encoding without BOM, that'll fix it

[tv_user]

OMG thank you, thank you! It worked! I had to install TextWrangler, but anyway, now it just works fine.

[warka0OO]

Hi everyone,

I cannot run this simple example too with Sublime Text 2. In fact, when i write "helloworld" it's working but not with a space like "hello world".
The build works but the app crash. I've check, ST2 already encode in UTF8 without BOM (by default).

It's very frustrating, someone can help for this ?

[Nixola]

I bet you've got an Ati/AMD video card, it's a problem some of them have. If that's the case,

Your ATI driver has a bug that crashes with a certain part of the code in LÖVE 0.8.0. Try this build, it includes a workaround.