geth Fatal invalid genesis file invalid character looking for beginning of object key string

Question

Hey my geth command is not working:

geth --datadir ./data init ./custom_genesis.json
Fatal: invalid genesis file: invalid character 'â' looking for beginning of object key string

Answer 1

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