Odd characters on first file input

[mrwrite]

I an using BASIC v4.5.1 and noticed on my WIN10
the first line I Input (a string) from a file, three
characters that are not part of the file. They are:


To solve this, I have to add a throw-away line for the
first input. This only happens with strings. Numbers input normally.
 Is there a fix?

[Rod]

Well Liberty does not create characters so those characters are in the file. Why? It is likely a Unicode file with a BOM file marker. Liberty is natively ASCII. So you have the solution, read it and dump it.

stackoverflow.com/questions/32184933/remove-bom-%C3%AF-from-imported-csv-file

[tsh73]

Where this file came from?
If you print from BASIC thern read back, do you have extra characters?

My guess that it could be some UNICODE marker telling file is indeed in UNICODE
which is written by some editor.

[mrwrite]

I agree. I just checked a few files.
IF the file was created with Liberty BASIC the anomaly DOES NOT appear.
IF the file was made by DocPad, it appears.
IF the file was made by Notepad, it DOES NOT appear.

Thank you for that insight.

[mrwrite]

Discovered the editor DocPad was set to UTC-8 instead of ASCII.
HOW it got changed, I don't know. (One of the problems of having so many options I suppose.)

This is good. DocPad has been my Editor of choice for awhile. It has a lot of odd options
that I find useful (Alphabetize, Discard duplicate paragraphs, Trim trailing spaces, Jump to line
and even Convert Case (Upper and Lower).