Fixed : “Json Array should begin with [” error on UTF-8 or UTF-16 files

Problem : JSON file which store top level JSON arrays just wouldn’t parse (using org.json library), and gives out an error message like – “Json Array should begin with [ …..”. Editors like Vim or Gedit or IntelliJ show no errors (or any character before “[” )in these files.

Reason :  Byte order marker character is prefixed to the file content (this was probably added when I converted the files from UTF-16 to UTF-8).

Fix:

1. Open the file in Vim.
2. Run command-   :set nobomb
3. save and exit. (:wq)

Kj

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