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Removing Byte Order Marks

I keep getting sent files, which are encoded in UTF-8, but include a BOM. Which is completely unnecessary. Thankfully, it’s pretty easy to remove with vim. Just load up the file and type in :set nobomb (docs for the bomb option) and save. Problem successfully defused!

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