Hi, I’m trying to figure out why tred won’t output to my file (using Windows). I’m not sure if this is a problem with tred or if I just don’t understand Powershell, but based on what I’m reading I should be able to simply output stdin with > In Powershell, dot -Tsvg file.dot -o file.svg Works fin…

Thanks for the reply. I’m not sure why it’s in there since the file shows up as UTF-8 without BOM in N++, but for now my workaround is just to delete the file, recreate it, run tred without piping the output, copy/paste the output from Powershell, then run the second command. Still gets the job done…

There’s already an action in graphviz cgraph/scan.l that ignores UTF-8 BOM symbols. "\xEF\xBB\xBF" /* ignore BOM */ north@margil cgraph % git blame -L197,197 scan.l 5afd378187 (Emden R. Gansner 2014-01-24 11:46:26 -0500 197) "\xEF\xBB\xBF" /* i…

We could probably add an option to tred to output to a file. Please open a Gitlab issue for this if you think it would be helpful.

powershell could be adding a utf 16 bom? If you can attach the output we can see

For anyone pondering the same, here is the decoding of the error the OP posted: ’ | | ■ | d | ’ 0xe2 0x80 0x99 | 0x20 | 0xe2 0x96 0xa0 | 0x64 | 0xe2 0x80 0x99 right quote | space | black square | d | right quote I have no theories, but Windows does like …

In my limited exposure to Powershell, it is full of side-effects and surprises.

Tred output to file?

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magjac July 26, 2023, 8:52am 2

My guess is that Powershell puts a BOM in your file. See Syntax error in line 1 - #3 by magjac.

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Tred output to file?

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