Symbols such as `<` gets toggled between Unicode and symbol representation

[dbeliavskij]

Describe the bug Having some trices in code with symbols < inside a format string, I noticed that these randomly switch between unicode representation and actual symbol representation:

To Reproduce Add trices with < symbol, execute trice insert, perform other changes in code executing trice insert again until symbols change. I could not detect what exactly causes a switch and it does not happen every time.

Expected behavior Trices do not change without change to trice itself.

[rokath]

This seems to be an editor display or OS issue. If the strings are modified, an other ID would get assigned. Please check out other editors like notepad++ and check the file encoding or BOM.

[dbeliavskij]

The file encoding is UTF-8

I am not sure how the editor can be related. What I shoved in the screenshot is what change git sees in til.json file. The trices themselves in the code do not change, only their representation in til.json

[rokath]

Currently no idea. For the conversion and file IO, library functions are used:

// toJSON converts lut into JSON byte slice in human-readable form.
func (lu TriceIDLookUp) toJSON() ([]byte, error) {
	return json.MarshalIndent(lu, "", "\t")
}

// toFile writes lut into file fn as indented JSON and in verbose mode helpers for third party.
func (ilu TriceIDLookUp) toFile(fSys afero.Fs, fn string) (err error) {
	var fJSON afero.File
	fJSON, err = fSys.Create(fn)
	msg.FatalOnErr(err)
	defer func() {
		err = fJSON.Close()
		msg.FatalOnErr(err)
	}()
	var b []byte
	b, err = ilu.toJSON()
	msg.FatalOnErr(err)
	_, err = fJSON.Write(b)
	msg.FatalOnErr(err)
	/////////
	return
}

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[rokath]

There are now 2 tests in id/utf8_test.go. Closing this issue now. If the problem pops up again, please re-open, we can try to intensify those tests then to be able to catch and debug it.