strip-all-bom

This is a package that allows you to strip all UTF-8 byte order marks (BOM) from a string.

Usage

import stripAllBom from 'strip-all-bom';

stripAllBom('\uFEFF🙈\uFEFF🙉\uFEFF🙊');
//=> '🙈🙉🙊'

Install

$ npm install strip-all-bom

Why?

I used a rich text editor which added ZWNBSP (Zero Width No-Break Space, BOM) on mentions which in turn messed up the tsvector search column in a postgres db. I created this package to strip all content from BOMs before saving.

From Wikipedia:

The Unicode Standard permits the BOM in UTF-8, but does not require nor recommend its use. Byte order has no meaning in UTF-8.