Reading UTF-8 – BOM marker

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In Java, you have to consume manually the UTF8 BOM if present. This behaviour is documented in the Java bug database, here and here. There will be no fix for now because it will break existing tools like JavaDoc or XML parsers. The Apache IO Commons provides a BOMInputStream to handle this situation.

Take a look at this solution: Handle UTF8 file with BOM

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