... the mod file? I checked it in Notepad, Notepad++ (ANSI, UTF-8 without BOM, UTF-8, and OEM 860: Portuguese encodings), GNU emacs-24.5, gvim 7.4 and Octave 3.8.2 and those characters aren't showing up for me in the first line in any of those programs. *I copied the file to another program, omitting ...