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<p>Thanks Roman and Antoine--looks like you both go the answer at the same time!</p>
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<p>This explanation makes sense, however I <i>am</i> using non ASCII characters in the textfile (not the one attached, but the one I'm working on), so I guess that I need the BOM to stay there. I've rigged up a system which will split the dead characters off
beginning of the first term, so it's working for now.</p>
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Would this be considered normal behavior for PD, or should I file a bug report?<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> 07 February 2017 08:11<br>
<b>To:</b> Liam Goodacre<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [PD] un-routable output from [text get]</font>
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<div dir="ltr">Your text file has been UTF8 encoded, and starts with a "byte order mark" (BOM<code>) {0xEF 0xBB 0xBF}</code>, which then is rejected by [route].<br>
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see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark#UTF-8" id="LPlnk490693" previewremoved="true" tabindex="-1" disabled="true">
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The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8" title="UTF-8" tabindex="-1" disabled="true">
UTF-8</a> representation of the BOM is the byte sequence <code>0xEF,0xBB,0xBF</code>. A text editor or web browser misinterpreting the text as
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ISO-8859-1</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP1252" class="gmail-mw-redirect" title="CP1252" tabindex="-1" disabled="true">
CP1252</a> will display the characters <code></code> for this.</blockquote>
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<p>I'm getting some strange behavior when reading a .txt file with [text define], where the output from [text get] isn't routeable like a normal list. See the attached file for an example. Do other users experience the same thing?</p>
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<p>[text fromsymbol] reveals that there are some extended ASCII characters junking around in front of the problematic term. Is PD accidentally reading some meta-data from the text file?<br>
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<p>Currently, it only seems to be happening on the first line of the file. I think I remember having the same problems throughout a textfile, although I can't replicate this now.</p>
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<p>Any suggestions?<br>
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