Remove “empty” character from String

Question

I\'m using a framwork which returns malformed Strings with \"empty\" characters from time to time.

\"foobar\" for example is represented by: [,f,o,o,b,a,r]

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Answer 1

Thank you Johannes Rössel. It actually was '\uFEFF'

The following code works:

 final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    for (final char character : body.toCharArray()) {
       if (character != '\uFEFF') {
          sb.append(character);
       }
     }  
 final String sanitzedString = sb.toString();

Anyone know of a way to just include a range of valid characters instead of excluding 95% of the UTF8 range?