From b082fb669295f84ace5eee23dff1f3c4a8002150 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: akemidx <kojotek.dx@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2025 18:21:25 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] investigation and notes

---
 app/Http/Controllers/ReportsController.php | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/app/Http/Controllers/ReportsController.php b/app/Http/Controllers/ReportsController.php
index 7df35df652..1cd2325098 100644
--- a/app/Http/Controllers/ReportsController.php
+++ b/app/Http/Controllers/ReportsController.php
@@ -443,6 +443,8 @@ class ReportsController extends Controller
             //this means:  in utf-8
             //i think this might be where we can start digging. tho, we always use utf-8 encoding on exports?
 
+            //should we just always use_bom? when would we not want to. use_bom is a fix i found on stack overflow
+
             $header = [];
 
             if ($request->filled('id')) {