How do I remove  from the beginning of a file?

Question

I have a CSS file that looks fine when I open it using gedit, but when it\'s read by PHP (to merge all the CSS files into one), this CSS has the following characters prepend

Answer 1

In PHP, you can do the following to remove all non characters including the character in question.

$response = preg_replace('/[\x00-\x1F\x80-\xFF]/', '', $response);