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The problem is the encoding of the files. The one that is good looks like that on my computer: image description

And the one that fails:

image description

To prove it try to select all text an paste it into the file that doesn't completes and you will see that the error will stay.

It is probably an issue worth reporting.

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The problem is the encoding of the files. The one that is good looks like that on my computer: image description

And the one that fails:

image description

To prove it try to select all text an paste it into the file that doesn't completes and you will see that the error will stay.

It is probably an issue worth reporting. reporting.


Summary of Comments added by @mldichter:
Energyplus is picky about the encoding of the file. Encoding "UTF-8 (BOM)" does not run, but encoding "UTF-8 without BOM" does run. You can change the encoding of the file easily using Notepad++.