How to remove  in a PHP string

Question

I am trying to use the Microsoft Bing API.

$data = file_get_contents(\"http://api.microsofttranslator.com/V2/Ajax.svc/Speak?appId=APPID&text={$text}&         


        

Answer 1

It's a byte order mark (BOM), indicating the response is encoded as UTF-8. You can safely remove it, but you should parse the remainder as UTF-8.