I use Jump Desktop to log remotely into the windows box. It allows simple copy paste between the machines. It did mess up the line returns, i had to put them back in. Somewhere in there is most likely where the characters got messed up.

Excellent! I was hoping it was something like that. Much thanks!

I hope this is not a NOOB issue, but I did not see it. I have been using filebot for a few years on windows and it's worked great. I use a customer tag script of: ``` {n} - {s00e00} - {t} ({vf}{' '}{ vc =~ /HEVC|265|HEVC MAIN 10/ ? ' X265' : ' h264'}{' ' + any{hdr}{'SDR'} + ' ' } { def best = any ...