VIM removal of Unicode ('bomb')

[Yedidyah Bar-David]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 04:53:26PM +0200, Noam Rathaus wrote:
> I am using:
> VIM - Vi IMproved 6.1 (2002 Mar 24, compiled Jan 15 2003 08:05:27)
> 
> And I have a few unicode characters (unicode encoding 'bomb'/marker) at the 
> beginning of the file that I want to remove.
> 0000000 bbef 3cbf 4421 434f 5954 4550 6820 6d74
> 
> I m referring to 0xbb, 0xef, 0x3c, 0xbf
> 
> I would to remove them, but opening the file with vim doesn't show them - as 
> they are markers it hides.
> 
> Can anyone help me get rid of them?
> 
> Any solution (not just using VIM) would be great.

You can use xxd. Basic stuff is trivial, google for 'vim xxd' for more.
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Didi