: Some applications (such as Windows Notepad), insert a UTF-8 Byte Order Mark : (BOM) as the first character of the file. So, perhaps the first word in your : stopwords list contains a UTF-8 BOM and thats why you are seeing this : behavior.
Robert: BOMs are one of those things that strike me as being abhorent and inheriently evil because they seem to cause nothing but problems -- but in truth i understand very little baout them and have no idea if/when they actually add value. If text files that start with a BOM aren't properly being dealt with by Solr right now, should we consider that a bug? Is there something we can/should be doing in SolrResourceLoader to make Solr handle this situation better? -Hoss
