then after closing and re-opening patch, don't work ...

Whereas, if i open another patch that was shown by Chris Muir in this topic :

https://cycling74.com/forums/leading-zero-and-setting-text-in-textedit

I made a patch which includes a
[sprintf %.2i]
in order to add a leading zero ...

worked,
then after closing and re-opening patch, don't work ...

Whereas, if i open another patch that was shown by Chris Muir in this topic :
https://cycling74.com/forums/leading-zero-and-setting-text-in-textedit
it works ...

bug-in-sprintf

The non-breaking space in the sprintf format string is paramount to this trick. You can type a non-breaking space with option-space on a Mac. Not sure how on Windows.

Thank you Chris. Indeed it works, but strangely, after closing & re-opening my patch, the useful [sprintf %.2i] magically becomes [sprintf ¬¨‚Ä†%.2i]

Odd. This doesn't happen for me. What platform are you on?

Sorry Chris. Looks like it's a Max 6 bug, i don't have it in Max5 anymore (+ a couple of extra bugs have disappeared also, like bad symbol transmission through a simple [pack])

Indeed, i never paid too much attention to the warning in Max 6 window : "Attempting to convert non UTF-8 characters"

bug in sprintf ?