06359: Lua hiscore.ini configuration file: The first line from file IO appears to have unwanted data returned

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
06359	Interface	Major	Always	Sep 1, 2016, 12:09	Sep 1, 2016, 14:33

Tester	ozfalcon	View Status	Public	Platform	MAME (Self-compiled)
Assigned To		Resolution	Invalid report	OS	Linux (32-bit)
Status [?]	Closed			Driver
Version	0.177	Fixed in Version		Build	Normal
		Fixed in Git Commit		Github Pull Request #

Summary	06359: Lua hiscore. ini configuration file: The first line from file IO appears to have unwanted data returned
Description	When trying to set the hiscore game save path the plugin would fail (Path is assigned NIL value). On further investigation, Plugin would work if the 1st line was a dummy entry - Which indicated an issue with IO for first line. I have made a plugin which highlights the issue for easy reproduction and observation.
Steps To Reproduce	Simply unzip the "loadtable" plugin and drop into your plugins directory. Run mame from command line, No rom is required. Exit mame. Observe the "loadtable" plugin printed output. Notice the string length does not match the actual characters visible in the displayed string.
Additional Information	Displayed output from "loadtable" plugin. ./sdlmame.0177.Mainline token = 1st_token token Length = 12 token value = does/not/match/length token = hi_path token Length = 7 token value = /home/my/hiscore/save/path token = data_path token Length = 9 token value = /home/my/hiscore/data/path Test Table Value: /home/my/hiscore/save/path
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Affected Sets / Systems	Lua hiscore.ini configuration file

Attached Files	loadtable.zip (1,335 bytes) Sep 1, 2016, 12:20 Uploaded by ozfalcon Demonstrate bug plugin

No.13094 crazyc Developer Sep 1, 2016, 14:33	Your loadtable.ini has a utf-8 bom at the start. I don't know what editor you used to create it but you need to save it without the bom.