<0xEF> character showing up in files. How to remove them?

Question

I am doing compressing of JavaScript files and the compressor is complaining that my files have  character in them.

How can I search for these cha

Answer 1

In Sublime Text you can install the Highlighter package and then customize the regular expression in your user settings.

Here I added \uFEFF to the end of the highlighter_regex property.

{
    "highlighter_enabled": true,
    "highlighter_regex": "(\t+ +)|( +\t+)|[\u2026\u2018\u2019\u201c\u201d\u2013\u2014\uFEFF]|[\t ]+$",
    "highlighter_scope_name": "invalid",
    "highlighter_max_file_size": 1048576,
    "highlighter_delay": 3000
}

To overwrite the default package settings place the file here:

~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/User/highlighter.sublime-settings