bomstrip software package provides tool to strip Byte-Order Marks from UTF-8 text files, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install bomstrip
bomstrip is installed in your system.
Make ensure the bomstrip package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep bomstrip *
You will get with bomstrip package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Text Processing |
| Package | bomstrip |
| Version | 09-09-2016 |
| Description | tool to strip Byte-Order Marks from UTF-8 text files |
| Sub Section | text |