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 PHPStorm, for multiple files and BOM not necessarily at the beginning of the file, you can search \x{FEFF} (Regular Expression) and replace with nothing.