I am facing a similar problem. I was working on de-subpatching timbre-ID examples and at some point the patch only works on puur data. On vanilla it complains about not having the declared arrays, although it is working fine on puur data:

soundfiler read: 0-timbreID-set: no such table
0-timbreOrder: no such object 
0-timbreOrder: no such object 

Could this be some kind of UTF/ASCII problem ? It seems that pd vanilla is eating the $...

I am on windows 11, pd 0.52.2 puur data 2.17.0( pd 0.48.0)

here is the patch:
order-no-subpatches.pd
grain-player-unit-abs.pd (should be inside a lib folder)