Hotstrings suddenly not working for special characters

[RxMigs]

Is it just me, or is this a bug? I recently installed version 1.1.30.03 on two different PCs, and in both installations, my hotstrings all changed, especially if they involve characters that are neither letters nor integers:

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Hotstring         :*?:1/2=::½
Expected result   ½
Actual result     ½

Hotstring         :*?:sqrt=::√
Expected result   √
Actual result     √

Hotstring         :*:php=::₱
Expected result   ₱
Actual result     ₱

These hotstrings were working fine for over a year.

Any feedback welcome.

[gregster]

They are working fine here on v1.1.30.03 Unicode.
Did you by accident install the ANSI version?

Your script also needs to be saved in UTF-8 with BOM format (but if the scripts worked before, this shouldn't have changed by itself).

[RxMigs]

Thanks @gregster! That worked like a charm.

For anybody else on the same boat:
On Notepad++, I converted my AHK file to UTF-8-BOM.
No need to save, but had to reload the script.
This might have happened because I installed AHK into a brand new PC.
Its encoding defaults might be different from those in my old PC.
@gregster

[DevinC]

Thanks that works.

Thanks @gregster! That worked like a charm.

For anybody else on the same boat:
On Notepad++, I converted my AHK file to UTF-8-BOM.
No need to save, but had to reload the script.
This might have happened because I installed AHK into a brand new PC.
Its encoding defaults might be different from those in my old PC.
@gregster