Seems like Typesafe Config chokes on "BOM'ed" UTF-8 encoded files.

Clone this repo and follow these steps to reproduce the issue:

• either:

  1. run with sbt run
     • observe unexceptional behavior
  2. copy application.conf.bom to application.conf (replacing the existing)
  3. run with sbt run
     • observe exceptional behavior (parse error)

• or: 0. copy application.conf.nobom to application.conf (replacing the existing)

  1. run with sbt run
     • observe unexceptional behavior
  2. edit application.conf with Windows Notepad
     • move first line to second line
     • insert a # in the first line
  3. run with sbt run
     • observe exceptional behavior (parse error)

(The application.conf.* files are found in src/main/resources)