diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c5065695..3ec47fb8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ sections up to the index to be used with the `get_section` Tera function
 - Ensure content directory exists before rendering aliases
 - Do not include drafts in pagination
 - Pages filenames starting by a date will now use that date as page date if there isn't one defined in frontmatter
+- Accept markdown files starting with BOM
 
 ## 0.4.2 (2018-09-03)
 
diff --git a/components/utils/src/fs.rs b/components/utils/src/fs.rs
index 39ec897a..d5d907f0 100644
--- a/components/utils/src/fs.rs
+++ b/components/utils/src/fs.rs
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ pub fn read_file(path: &Path) -> Result<String> {
         .chain_err(|| format!("Failed to open '{:?}'", path.display()))?
         .read_to_string(&mut content)?;
 
+    // Remove utf-8 BOM if any.
+    if content.starts_with("\u{feff}") {
+        content.drain(..3);
+    }
+
     Ok(content)
 }
 
diff --git a/test_site/content/hello.md b/test_site/content/hello.md
index ac36e062..4d384f3a 100644
--- a/test_site/content/hello.md
+++ b/test_site/content/hello.md
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
++++
 +++
-+++
+
+This file starts with a UTF-8 BOM and should be loaded