Mod Developer Request!

[Icehawk78]

To any mod developers who have had any issues with saving files as UTF-8 vs ANSI, I have a request to make:

1. Do you have a reproducible way to reliably create the crashed FTL via saving your mod .append files as UTF-8 rather than ANSI?
2. Do you run GMM via Python directly, rather than via modman.exe? (Or are you able to and still reproduce the first issue?)
3. Are you willing to modify GMM files to help me test a possible fix for that issue?

If all of these are true for you, please let me know! I think I have a fix for that issue, but I have no way of testing, as UTF-8 encoded mod files don't seem to break FTL on my system.

I can walk anyone who's able to test this for me through the changes one-on-one, if you need help, let me know. The following changes should be all that's needed.

main.py, Line 7, add the following:

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import codecs

main.py, Line 31 replace this:

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    target.write(source.read() + "\n")

With this:

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    target.write(source.read().lstrip(unicode(codecs.BOM_UTF8, "utf8")) + "\n")

For those who don't know, Python is sensitive to spacing, so while changing things, do not alter the number of spaces at the beginning of a line, and don't change the spaces into tabs or anything else. If you do, it will likely break your copy of GMM until it's fixed.