Characters y and b appear when reading a text file

The vi shown in the picture opens a text file from hard drive with "Open/Create/Replace File" and with "Read from Spreadsheet File".
Then the vi displays the text in the respective indicators.
In both indicators, there is a y and b that appear as the very first first characters.
It's not exactly a y and b. The y has two dots over it and the stem of the b hangs low, a non-English script.
In Word and Notepad these charcters don't show up. The first character is a zero as I originally wrote.
The text file was originally created in Excel and then saved as unicode text.
From whence do these funky letters come? and how do I get them to leave?
Also, it looks like the text in both indicators is adding a blank line after each line. That doesn't show up Notepad or Word either.

Carmen92126 wrote:
The text file was originally created in Excel and then saved as unicode text.
There's your problem: unicode. You might want to check out this quick thread: Config file "byte order mark"
Yes, by saving as Unicode, you have a couple of extra bytes that most text editor know to ignore. But LabVIEW just gives you the raw data.

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