VIM removal of Unicode ('bomb')

[Shachar Shemesh]

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.
>
>   
I would use khexedit, myself, or set the locale to C and open with vim.

Just a technical note: It's "BOM" - Byte Order Mark. I've never heard of 
bomb (in the Unicode context).

Shachar