Thanks Roman and Antoine--looks like you both go the answer at the same time!
This explanation makes sense, however I am 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.
Would this be considered normal behavior for PD, or should I file a bug report?
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From: Antoine Rousseau <anto...@metalu.net>
Sent: 07 February 2017 08:11
To: Liam Goodacre
Cc: PD list
Subject: Re: [PD] un-routable output from [text get]
Your text file has been UTF8 encoded, and starts with a "byte order mark" (BOM)
{0xEF 0xBB 0xBF}, which then is rejected by [route].
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark#UTF-8 :
Byte order mark - Wikipedia<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark#UTF-8>
en.wikipedia.org
The byte order mark (BOM) is a Unicode character, U+FEFF BYTE ORDER MARK (BOM),
whose appearance as a magic number at the start of a text stream can signal
several ...
The UTF-8<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8> representation of the BOM is the
byte sequence 0xEF,0xBB,0xBF. A text editor or web browser misinterpreting the
text as ISO-8859-1<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO-8859-1> or
CP1252<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP1252> will display the characters 
for this.
Antoine Rousseau
http://www.metalu.net<http://metalu.net> __
http://www.metaluachahuter.com/<http://www.metaluachahuter.com/compagnies/al1-ant1/>
2017-02-07 8:34 GMT+01:00 Liam Goodacre
<liamg...@hotmail.com<mailto:liamg...@hotmail.com>>:
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?
[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?
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.
Any suggestions?
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