fix: handle UTF-8 BOM in frontmatter parsing

Fixes #452 - Imported conversations not fully indexed

Files with UTF-8 BOM (Byte Order Mark) at the start would fail frontmatter
detection, causing:
- Title to fall back to filename instead of frontmatter value
- Permalink to be null in the database

Added strip_bom() helper function and updated all frontmatter-related
functions to strip BOM before processing:
- has_frontmatter()
- parse_frontmatter()
- remove_frontmatter()
- EntityParser.parse_markdown_content()

Added comprehensive tests for BOM handling with various scenarios.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: phernandez <paul@basicmachines.co>
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phernandez
2025-12-24 14:20:50 -06:00
parent 14ce5a3bd0
commit 85684f848f
4 changed files with 169 additions and 2 deletions
@@ -227,6 +227,11 @@ class EntityParser:
Returns:
EntityMarkdown with parsed content
"""
# Strip BOM before parsing (can be present in files from Windows or certain sources)
# See issue #452
from basic_memory.file_utils import strip_bom
content = strip_bom(content)
# Parse frontmatter with proper error handling for malformed YAML
try:
post = frontmatter.loads(content)