How NOT to skip BOM info (FF FE) when using fread or ifstream?

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I'm trying to use fread/ifstream to read the first 2 bytes of a .csv with BOM info. But following code always skips the first two bytes (which are 'FF FE'):

ifstream is;
is.open (fn, ios::binary );
char buf[2];
is.read(buf, 2);
is.close();

using FILE*/fread does no better.

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