code: def remove_bom(text):
      r"""
      Remove a byte-order mark that was accidentally decoded as if it were part
      of the text.
  
      >>> print(remove_bom(chr(0xfeff) + "Where do you want to go today?"))
      Where do you want to go today?
      """
      return text.lstrip(chr(0xFEFF))
  
imports: import codecs
  import html
  import re
  import warnings
  import ftfy
  from ftfy.chardata import ALTERED_UTF8_RE, C1_CONTROL_RE, CONTROL_CHARS, DOUBLE_QUOTE_RE, HTML_ENTITIES, HTML_ENTITY_RE, LIGATURES, LOSSY_UTF8_RE, SINGLE_QUOTE_RE, UTF8_DETECTOR_RE, WIDTH_MAP
  from ftfy.badness import is_bad
label_desc: Use image node_id 14 for calling a global function with example usage: remove_bom(text) and returns: text