I was using this script:

(global short ticks 0)
(global short seconds 0)
(global short minutes 0)

(script continuous manage_ticks
	(set ticks (+ ticks 1))
	(if
		(>= ticks 30)
		(begin
			(set seconds (+ seconds 1))
			(set ticks 0)
		)
	)
	(if
		(>= seconds 60)
		(begin
			(set minutes (+ minutes 1))
			(set seconds 0)
		)
	)
	(hud_set_timer_time minutes seconds)
)

Which I found on another topic. I compiled the script with Sapien and I got this error

07.18.09 18:24:46  i expected a script or variable definition.: ÿþ(
07.18.09 18:24:46  recompiling scripts after scenarios were merged.
07.18.09 18:24:46  i expected a script or variable definition.: ÿþ(

Can anyone help me? Yes, I want a timer that counts up.

Did you save the text file in "ANSI" and not "Unicode"?

That happened to me when I did that.