issue removing special characters from json payload

[Dave Edgar]

I'm using payload builder to create a json payload but when i pull the payload into a script to sent it erroneous characters are being added - ï»¿

I've tried this

var pld = pl.replace('¿»ï', '');

or this but they won't remove

var pl = inputs.payload;
var pld = pl.replace('¿', '');
var pld2 = pld.replace('ï','');
var pld3 = pld2.replace('»','');

any ideas

Apparently this issue occurs due to building the payload builder in a version of chromium in the browser!