error: illegal character: '\ufeff' in java

Question

Got this error when compiled java code in ubuntu.

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error: illegal character: \'\\ufeff\'

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Answer 1

In case your are working on Windows O.S. and use Eclipse (which don't have the functionality to remove the BOM from the file), just open the file in Notepad++ and in the encoding menu, select "UTF-8", then save the file.