I recently updated my website and was able to remove these  silly characters from displaying on some of my pages.I read online and nothing helped, they suggested to use notepad++ which is what I’ve always used. And it never worked, until I found another program to use.
If you want to remove  bom byte order from displaying on some of your pages USE less than slash editor. I was able to clearly see the bom characters  and all I did was just highlight them and remove them. And they were gone, in less than a fraction of a second. What took me a month to figure out was resolved in a matter of seconds. here is a link where you can find the software to end the your bom problem http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_WEBDESIGN.php
On another note, I am about to finish a new website this one is for a tree service company here in austin. We’ll see final product probably next week.
later readers hope this helped anyone.