code: function stripBOM (content) {
      content = content.toString()
      // Remove byte order marker. This catches EF BB BF (the UTF-8 BOM)
      // because the buffer-to-string conversion in `fs.readFileSync()`
      // translates it to FEFF, the UTF-16 BOM.
      if (content.charCodeAt(0) === 0xFEFF) return content.slice(1)
      return content
    }
docs: Code also yanked from read-package-json.