Add BOM to Essbase exported file?

We've got a MaxL script that exports a Unicode-enabled database to a text file. By default that file is UTF-8 encoded, however it's "Unix" UTF-8 encoded and therefore has no byte order mark (BOM) at the beginning of the file. While this practice may not be wrong or bad, we cannot load the files into Cognos Decision Stream. Because DS does not see a BOM it does not recognize the file as UTF8 and chokes on the load. Is there a way to automate adding the BOM UTF-8 signature to the exported text files? It appears from the documentation that 'essutf8 -s filename.txt' should work, but it does not - the file is still sans BOM. Suggestions? Thank you.

>> Thank you so much. I tried to do this. But when I click on the button in the "scene" it says that I cannot add action to the selected item.
Any thoughts? Some setting I'm not getting right when creating the button?<<
Your Flash project is set to use Actionscript 3.0. In ActionScript 3.0 code cannot be added to buttons (or any symbol) directly it can only be added to a keyframe in the timeline. Mordys's suggestion above will work for a file that targets Actionscript 2.0 though.
Since I assume the code was sent by the people you created the banner for and the code is for AS 2.0, you should be able to change the targeting of the movie.
1- In Flash go to File>Publish Settings.
2- In the Flash tab of the Publish Settings dialog box Choose Actionscript 2.0 from the actionscript version drop down menu.
3-Close the window.
You can now go back to the timeline and add the code to the buttons as Mordy suggested.
In the getURL action I believe the address of the link should be inside quotes.
If you need the code for making a button in AS 3.0 it is considerably longer. If you need it shoot me an email, it is in my profile.

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