1  /**
 2   * Leaf stripBOM — extracted from json.ts to break settings → json → log →
 3   * types/logs → … → settings. json.ts imports this for its memoized+logging
 4   * safeParseJSON; leaf callers that can't import json.ts use stripBOM +
 5   * jsonParse inline (syncCacheState does this).
 6   *
 7   * UTF-8 BOM (U+FEFF): PowerShell 5.x writes UTF-8 with BOM by default
 8   * (Out-File, Set-Content). We can't control user environments, so strip on
 9   * read. Without this, JSON.parse fails with "Unexpected token".
10   */
11  
12  const UTF8_BOM = '\uFEFF'
13  
14  export function stripBOM(content: string): string {
15    return content.startsWith(UTF8_BOM) ? content.slice(1) : content
16  }