Fails to parse utf8 BOM encoded files

[Drugoy]

Currently they cause "Syntax Error in line X: Command '/*' not found."

[phil294]

could you please share some code? as far as I can tell, it works fine.

[Drugoy]

https://github.com/Drugoy/Autohotkey-scripts-.ahk/blob/master/DrugWinManager/DrugWinManager.ahk

[phil294]

found the problem, it's because your linked file is saved as UTF-8 with BOM. Any command fails, not just /*

I don't really remember the point of BOMs, but https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/381237/103120 says

A BOM doesn't make sense in UTF-8. Those are generally added by mistake by bogus software on Microsoft OSes.

so for now I guess just do dos2unix DrugWinManager.ahk once.

ahkx11 should eventually also support utf-bom, and also \r\n delimited text files (I assume that doesn't work either).

Regarding the script itself, I guess it was just for demo purposes? Because in case you don't know, you can in no way just execute windows ahk scripts with this very tool

[Drugoy]

Thanks for evaluating the real issue here and editing this ticket.
As for the script itself - I've recently just learned about ahk_x11 and I don't yet know what it's capable of at all and what I actually need from it now that I live on linux.
I guess, most of all I miss proper hotstringing (on the level that AHK delivered it on Windows).

[phil294]

non-utf8 or bom-files will now (upcoming release) just be rejected with an explicit message at startup, that's good enough for me