title: Unexpected character ('?' (code 65279 / 0xfeff)) json_encode PHP
body: <p>I get this error when trying to consume an API call with RETROFIT 2.</p>
  
  <p>Unexpected character ('?' (code 65279 / 0xfeff)).</p>
  
  <p>Basically Retrofit just fails to decode the json response  due to that special character.</p>
  
  <p>I tried to analyse my Json with <a href="http://www.jsonschema2pojo.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.jsonschema2pojo.org/</a> and I noticed this special charactere. </p>
  
  <p>The way I generate the Json is with PHP </p>
  
  <pre><code>echo json_encode($this-&gt;places,JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE|JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there a way to get rid of that character. Is it comming from my json or from the echo command.</p>
  
  <p>Please help.</p>