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LaTeX baffled by BOM---Unicode's byte order mark.
I have a large text file in .docx format, and I used LibreOffice to convert it to plain text so I could nicely format it with LaTeX.
I've fixed as many of the problems as I could find (unescaped %s, etc), but there's one persistent bug in the document that still remains.
When I run LaTeX, I get as an error:
! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
...
l.1
��%\documentclass{article}
My preamble consists of
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
so I'm definitely not just missing a \begin{document}.
I suspect the ��% means that LibreOffice put a few unicode characters at the beginning of the file (I don't know what the � is, it just shows up as a question mark on my computer), and that this is causing LaTeX to fail somehow.
If these characters are the problem, how do I remove them?
If these characters aren't the problem, what else could it be?
