From 9323384ed1b851fdbdeb47fdd13708f957cadf41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: honfika <honfika@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 19:42:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ignore BOM in UTF-8 text file

---
 src/com/jpexs/helpers/Helper.java | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/com/jpexs/helpers/Helper.java b/src/com/jpexs/helpers/Helper.java
index cd09a543f..8e48abae4 100644
--- a/src/com/jpexs/helpers/Helper.java
+++ b/src/com/jpexs/helpers/Helper.java
@@ -441,7 +441,13 @@ public class Helper {
     }
 
     public static String readTextFile(String... file) {
-        return new String(readFile(file), Utf8Helper.charset);
+        byte[] data = readFile(file);
+        if (data.length > 1 && data[0] == (byte) 0xef && data[1] == (byte) 0xbb && data[2] == (byte) 0xbf) {
+            // remove UTF-8 BOM
+            return new String(data, 3, data.length - 3, Utf8Helper.charset);
+        }
+
+        return new String(data, Utf8Helper.charset);
     }
 
     public static byte[] readStream(InputStream is) {