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… loss When a .env file is saved with a UTF-8 BOM (common with JetBrains IDEs on Windows), the BOM character (\ufeff) was prepended to the first variable name, making it silently inaccessible via its intended key. Strip the BOM in Reader.__init__ so all variables are parsed correctly regardless of whether the file contains a BOM. Fixes theskumar#637 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Fixes #637
When a
.envfile is saved with a UTF-8 BOM (Byte Order Mark), the BOM character (\ufeff) is prepended to the first variable name, making it silently inaccessible via its intended key. This is a common issue with JetBrains IDEs on Windows, which often save files with BOM encoding by default.Before:
After:
Changes
src/dotenv/parser.py: Strip the UTF-8 BOM (\ufeff) from the beginning of the stream content inReader.__init__usingstr.removeprefix().tests/test_parser.py: Added two test cases for BOM handling — single variable and multiple variables with BOM prefix.Test plan
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