remove special characters from line

[Chris Rennert]

Hello all,

If I have a line like this

²blah blah blah blah blah

I know I could do a slice like this [1:] to pull everything but the special
character, but what if I have several lines in a file.
I am not sure how I would detect a special character like that.  I would
just like to pull everything from those lines (and the special character
always appears as the first character, but not on every line) except for the
special characters.
I hope I have enough detail for someone to help me.

Thanks in advance,

Chris