title: VB script BOM UTF-8 Encoded File Remove BOM
body: <p>I am using WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1 to get back an xml document from a url. It has a "ï»¿" at the start of the file causing XMLDOM.loadxml to fail.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Remove the BOM from the string when reading from URL</li>
  <li>Have the xml parser ignore the BOM</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>(NOTE: I can't change the response from the URL)</p>