Stray '\304' in Program Error

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Hello, I tried to verify my code in Arduino IDE but I keep getting the same error:
:\Users\at607\AppData\Local\Temp.arduinoIDE-unsaved2024216-22000-58o157.bjzva\sketch_mar16a\sketch_mar16a.ino:1:1: error: stray '\304' in program
ınt pır-2;
^
C:\Users\at607\AppData\Local\Temp.arduinoIDE-unsaved2024216-22000-58o157.bjzva\sketch_mar16a\sketch_mar16a.ino:1:2: error: stray '\261' in program
ınt pır-2;
^
C:\Users\at607\AppData\Local\Temp.arduinoIDE-unsaved2024216-22000-58o157.bjzva\sketch_mar16a\sketch_mar16a.ino:1:7: error: stray '\304' in program
ınt pır-2;
^
C:\Users\at607\AppData\Local\Temp.arduinoIDE-unsaved2024216-22000-58o157.bjzva\sketch_mar16a\sketch_mar16a.ino:1:8: error: stray '\261' in program
ınt pır-2;
^
C:\Users\at607\AppData\Local\Temp.arduinoIDE-unsaved2024216-22000-58o157.bjzva\sketch_mar16a\sketch_mar16a.ino:2:1: error: stray '\304' in program
ınt led=4;
^
C:\Users\at607\AppData\Local\Temp.arduinoIDE-unsaved2024216-22000-58o157.bjzva\sketch_mar16a\sketch_mar16a.ino:2:2: error: stray '\261' in program
ınt led=4;
^
C:\Users\at607\AppData\Local\Temp.arduinoIDE-unsaved2024216-22000-58o157.bjzva\sketch_mar16a\sketch_mar16a.ino:1:3: error: 'nt' does not name a type; did you mean 'int'?
ınt pır-2;
^~
int
C:\Users\at607\AppData\Local\Temp.arduinoIDE-unsaved2024216-22000-58o157.bjzva\sketch_mar16a\sketch_mar16a.ino:2:3: error: 'nt' does not name a type; did you mean 'int'?
ınt led=4;
^~
int
C:\Users\at607\AppData\Local\Temp.arduinoIDE-unsaved2024216-22000-58o157.bjzva\sketch_mar16a\sketch_mar16a.ino: In function 'void setup()':
C:\Users\at607\AppData\Local\Temp.arduinoIDE-unsaved2024216-22000-58o157.bjzva\sketch_mar16a\sketch_mar16a.ino:6:11: error: 'pir' was not declared in this scope
pinMode(pir,INPUT);
^~~
C:\Users\at607\AppData\Local\Temp.arduinoIDE-unsaved2024216-22000-58o157.bjzva\sketch_mar16a\sketch_mar16a.ino:7:11: error: 'led' was not declared in this scope
pinMode(led,OUTPUT)
^~~
C:\Users\at607\AppData\Local\Temp.arduinoIDE-unsaved2024216-22000-58o157.bjzva\sketch_mar16a\sketch_mar16a.ino: In function 'void loop()':
C:\Users\at607\AppData\Local\Temp.arduinoIDE-unsaved2024216-22000-58o157.bjzva\sketch_mar16a\sketch_mar16a.ino:14:23: error: 'pir' was not declared in this scope
int oku=digitalRead(pir);
^~~
C:\Users\at607\AppData\Local\Temp.arduinoIDE-unsaved2024216-22000-58o157.bjzva\sketch_mar16a\sketch_mar16a.ino:16:18: error: 'led' was not declared in this scope
digitalWrite(led,HIGH);
^~~
C:\Users\at607\AppData\Local\Temp.arduinoIDE-unsaved2024216-22000-58o157.bjzva\sketch_mar16a\sketch_mar16a.ino:18:16: error: 'led' was not declared in this scope
digitalWrite(led,LOW);
^~~
C:\Users\at607\AppData\Local\Temp.arduinoIDE-unsaved2024216-22000-58o157.bjzva\sketch_mar16a\sketch_mar16a.ino:22:1: error: expected '}' at end of input
}
^

exit status 1

Compilation error: stray '\304' in program
The Code:
ınt pır-2;
ınt led=4;
void setup() {

// put your setup code here, to run once:
pinMode(pir,INPUT);
pinMode(led,OUTPUT)

}

void loop() {
// put your main code here, to run repeatedly:
int oku=digitalRead(pir);
if(oku==HIGH) {
digitalWrite(led,HIGH);
}else{
digitalWrite(led,LOW);

}

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Welcome to the forum

It looks like you copied the code from a Web site during the course of which some Unicode (multi byte) characters were copied

Here is the sketch with them removed

NOTE THE USE OF CODE TAGS to make reading and copying the code easier. Please use them in future

int pir = 2;
int led = 4;
void setup()
{
    // put your setup code here, to run once:
    pinMode(pir, INPUT);
    pinMode(led, OUTPUT);
}

void loop()
{
    // put your main code here, to run repeatedly:
    int oku = digitalRead(pir);
    if (oku == HIGH)
    {
        digitalWrite(led, HIGH);
    }
    else
    {
        digitalWrite(led, LOW);
    }
}

NOTE - I have also fixed a couple of problems with the code too, such as the use of - instead of =, missing semicolons and the missing final curly brace

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3

You have an extended ASCII character in your code, probably copied from an HTML document.

DEC OCT   HEX  BINARY     Symbol Keys    HTML   HTML
196 0o304 0xc4 0b11000100 Ä      alt+196 Ä Ä
5

Yes, I think so, but as there were only 3 or 4 dodgy characters in the code and they showed up in the 2.x IDE like this
image
I corrected them manually

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Nor did I :grinning:

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