so we have several google docs for the script of kitsune tails. i download them as txt files, and a batch file concatenates them with the type command. then i feed the concatenated full script to our script tool
anyway turns out when you download txt files from google docs they stick a fucking byte order mark in em. so concatenating them just sticks random BOMs all through your document. i never noticed because of a fluke of the tool
so anyway now i've added code to strip BOMs from the start of any line but jesus christ this is why there should not be byte order marks, ever, and if your software is putting them into plaintext files in this, the year of our lord 2024 then you deserve to get reality checked right into the pavement