Remove byte-order mark from the beginning of the file

When a file is saved with BOM (byte-order mark) on a Mac or Linux machine Windows PowerShell cannot execute the script.

Unfortunately the “cat” command does not show the byte-order mark at the beginning of the file. Some editors show a question mark at the beginning of the file.

I have discovered it when I issued the “git diff” command:

<U+FEFF>

To remove the BOM in Visual Studio Code

• Open the file in Visual Studio Code
• Click the UTF-8 with BOM text at the bottom right of the screen
  
• On the top select Save with Encoding
  
• Select UTF-8
  

The “git diff” command shows the removal of the BOM