Jira (FACT-378) Facter 1.7.5 on Windows Server 2012 R2: Can't parse first line of a YAML file

[Joshua Cooper (JIRA)]

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Joshua Cooper commented on an issue   Re: Facter 1.7.5 on Windows Server 2012 R2: Can't parse first line of a YAML file Gerard Ryan for future reference, the characters you are seeing {{ ∩╗┐}} are the byte order mark (BOM), which MS often uses to signify the encoding of the data that follows, e.g. UTF-8, UTF-16LE. Puppet (and ruby) do not automatically strip these off when trying to read a file, thereby causing the problem. Add Comment   Facter / FACT-378 Facter 1.7.5 on Windows Server 2012 R2: Can't parse first line of a YAML file This issue should be very easy to reproduce. I have tested it in two different server 2012 instances... one in VMware Workstation 10.0 running vSphere/ESXi and the other in AWS EC2. In both cases I have added a custom YAML file to C:\ProgramData\PuppetLabs\facter\facts.d and populated it with custom facts, thusly: app_project: "sfa" app_environment: "... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.