}

    /**
     * Strips comments from a line (everything after '#' character).
     * @param line the line to strip comments from
     * @return the line without comments
     */
    protected String stripComment(final String line) {
        final int commentIndex = line.indexOf('#');
        if (commentIndex != -1) {
            return line.substring(0, commentIndex);
        }
        return line;
    }

                Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("suggest_settings/default-badwords.txt")))) {

            String line;
            while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
                if (line.length() > 0 && !line.startsWith("#")) {
                    list.add(line.trim());
                }
            }
        } catch (final Exception e) {

            final List<String> rules = Analysis.parseWordList(env, settings, "synonyms", s -> s);
            final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            for (final String line : rules) {
                sb.append(line).append(System.getProperty("line.separator"));
            }
            reader = new StringReader(sb.toString());
        } else if (settings.get("synonyms_path") != null) {

            if (ruleList == null || ruleList.isEmpty()) {
                return null;
            }

            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            for (String line : ruleList) {
                sb.append(line).append(System.lineSeparator());
            }
            return UserDictionary.open(new StringReader(sb.toString()));
        } catch (IOException e) {

     *
     * This method removes characters that are not allowed in XML documents
     * according to the XML 1.0 specification. Valid characters include:
     * - Tab (0x9)
     * - Line feed (0xA)
     * - Carriage return (0xD)
     * - Any character between 0x20 and 0xD7FF
     * - Any character between 0xE000 and 0xFFFD
     * - Any character between 0x10000 and 0x10FFFF
     *