Non-UTF8 JSON files fail to deserialize

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Windows GUI Application

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As soon as I press render I get this message: ERROR: '0xFF' is an invalid start of a value. LineNumber: 0 | BytePositionInLine: 0.

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Here is the JSON file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VqEx_lW7-dSUBwpoJbYg0U6Pt6xIitm5/view

[ScrubN]

For some strange reason, your chat starts with 2 invalid bytes (FF FE). You can open it with a hex editor or use a hex editor plugin in a text editor like vscode to delete those bytes and save to a new file.

[ScrubN]

I just realized, those bytes are because the document was written with UTF16. You should be able to convert it to UTF8 with a text editor like vscode or notepad++

[ScrubN]

The user should not be expected to know the differences between UTF8 and UTF16 nor fix problems caused by the differences.