[RAc]

It appears to be an encoding issue. Your file is encoded with UTF-8-BOM, but if I change it to just UTF-8, it works perfectly. So I'm going to have to modify the code to detect the encoding, and remove the BOM before feeding it to the underlying library.

Mike

Thanks, but that does not solve the problem - after removing the BOM from the file, I still get the same error.

did you verify that the file did not load WITH the BOM?

EDIT: I played around with this a little more. Not even the minimum .abc as attached (again, please rename) will load, and there is nothing in the application log that hints towards it.