replace-issue

diff --git a/scripts/replace.py b/scripts/replace.py
index 56fcab5..8d2d119 100644
--- a/scripts/replace.py
+++ b/scripts/replace.py
@@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ def main(*args):
         try:
             with codecs.open(replacement_file, 'r', 'utf-8') as f:
                 commandline_replacements.extend(
-                line.lstrip(u'\uFEFF').rstrip('\r\n') for line in f)
+                line.rstrip('\r\n') for line in f.readlines())
         except (IOError, OSError) as e:
             pywikibot.error('Error loading {0}: {1}'.format(
                 replacement_file, e))
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