title: Is there a way to remove the BOM from a UTF-8 encoded file?
body: <p>Is there a way to remove the BOM from a UTF-8 encoded file?</p>
  
  <p>I know that all of my JSON files are encoded in UTF-8, but the data entry person who edited the JSON files saved it as UTF-8 with the BOM.</p>
  
  <p>When I run my Ruby scripts to parse the JSON, it is failing with an error.
  I don't want to manually open 58+ JSON files and convert to UTF-8 without the BOM.</p>