unrecognized character when creating mongodb service

Question

I'm trying to create a service for mongodb in window 7. When it enter

mongod  --config c:\mongodb\mongod.cfg --dbpath c:\mongodb\data\db --install

i get this error

error command line: unrecognized line in ' ■l'

mongod.cfg

logpath=C:\mongodb\log\mongo.log

Answer 1

As jimoleary suggested in a comment link, be sure the config file is encoded as ANSI or UTF-8 rather than UTF-16 (Unicode).