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LearnmoreaboutTeams error:illegalcharacter:'\ufeff'injava AskQuestion Asked 5years,1monthago Modified 9monthsago Viewed 32ktimes 17 Gotthiserrorwhencompiledjavacodeinubuntu. ![Gotthiserror][1] error:illegalcharacter:'\ufeff' importjava.net.*; ^ error:class,interface,orenumexpected importjava.net.*; ^ javacompilationubuntu-16.04 Share Follow editedAug15,2020at9:07 SaurabhVemuri askedAug15,2017at17:01 SaurabhVemuriSaurabhVemuri 18111goldbadge11silverbadge66bronzebadges 3 2 LookslikeaUTF-8BOM(ByteOrderMarker)atthestartofthefile.Thatshouldnotbethere,justremoveit. – JimGarrison Aug15,2017at17:02 Howtoremovethat? – SaurabhVemuri Aug15,2017at17:03 4 Howdidyoucreatethefile?UseaneditorthatdoesnotaddtheBOM,orconfigureyoureditortonotaddtheBOMwheneditingUTF-8 – JimGarrison Aug15,2017at17:05 Addacomment  |  5Answers 5 Sortedby: Resettodefault Highestscore(default) Trending(recentvotescountmore) Datemodified(newestfirst) Datecreated(oldestfirst) 19 AsJimGarrisonpointedout,youprobablyhaveaByteOrderMarker(BOM)atthestartofthefile.Useaneditorthatcanviewallnon-printablecharactersandremoveit. Alternatively,youcanusesedtoremoveit: sed'1s/^.//'infile>>outfile Share Follow editedAug15,2017at17:31 answeredAug15,2017at17:23 SunnyPatelSunnyPatel 7,57422goldbadges3232silverbadges4242bronzebadges 3 1 Orinvim:setnobomb:wq – lucidbrot Apr5,2019at8:19 1 :xisshorterthan:wq.:) – SunnyPatel Apr8,2019at16:31 11 ifyouuseintellijrightclickonfileandchoose"RemoveBOM" – SamirGhoneim Jun17,2020at22:07 Addacomment  |  12 IfyouareusingIntelliJ,rightclickontheclassfileandselect'RemoveBOM'. ThatshouldremovetheBOMatthestart. Share Follow answeredMay4,2021at8:18 SajinPattathSajinPattath 21133silverbadges44bronzebadges 2 It'sstrangebutsometimesitdoesn'tworkatfirstsoIhavefirsttoaddBOMandthenremoveBOM – RoK Feb3at14:35 Hadthesameissuewithnetlify.tomlcausingaconfigparsingerroronNetlify.Thisworked,thanks. – VictorZakharov Apr18at11:57 Addacomment  |  9 IncaseyourareworkingonWindowsO.S.anduseEclipse(whichdon'thavethefunctionalitytoremovetheBOMfromthefile),justopenthefileinNotepad++andintheencodingmenu,select"UTF-8",thensavethefile. Share Follow editedAug14,2020at9:20 sɐunıɔןɐqɐp 3,0131515goldbadges3434silverbadges3838bronzebadges answeredAug14,2020at8:34 JeffJeff 10533silverbadges55bronzebadges 1 Itisquitepossibleineclipse:Justchangetheencodingofthefiletoiso(Rightclickonfile->Properties)anddeletethefirstthreeBOMcharacters,savefileandreopenit. – Lonzak Jun6,2021at20:45 Addacomment  |  0 UseanothereditorbecauseitseemstobeaneclipseUTF-8-BOMproblem. ConverttheUTFtypeUTF-8. AndalsoInotethat;Firstitdoesn'tworkformeandIconvertthetypeANSIandafterconverttypetoUTF-8format.Itcanbeaanotheralternativesolutionforyou Share Follow answeredMar5,2019at14:32 METEHANKARAMETEHANKARA 2111bronzebadge Addacomment  |  0 downloadingmodelsfromhttps://codebeautify.org/json-to-java-converteriscausingsuchproblems. createnewfileandcopy/pastealldatafromthedownloadedfile. Share Follow answeredApr21,2021at11:58 jeet.chanchawatjeet.chanchawat 5,66655goldbadges3535silverbadges5858bronzebadges Addacomment  |  YourAnswer ThanksforcontributingananswertoStackOverflow!Pleasebesuretoanswerthequestion.Providedetailsandshareyourresearch!Butavoid…Askingforhelp,clarification,orrespondingtootheranswers.Makingstatementsbasedonopinion;backthemupwithreferencesorpersonalexperience.Tolearnmore,seeourtipsonwritinggreatanswers. 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