diff --git a/CSharp/Libraries/UniversalEditor.Essential/DataFormats/Text/Plain/ByteOrderMark.cs b/CSharp/Libraries/UniversalEditor.Essential/DataFormats/Text/Plain/ByteOrderMark.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b12bee75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CSharp/Libraries/UniversalEditor.Essential/DataFormats/Text/Plain/ByteOrderMark.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+//
+//  ByteOrderMark.cs
+//
+//  Author:
+//       Mike Becker <alcexhim@gmail.com>
+//
+//  Copyright (c) 2019 Mike Becker
+//
+//  This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+//  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+//  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+//  (at your option) any later version.
+//
+//  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+//  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+//  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+//  GNU General Public License for more details.
+//
+//  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+//  along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+using System;
+namespace UniversalEditor.DataFormats.Text.Plain
+{
+	public enum ByteOrderMark
+	{
+		None,
+		UTF8,
+		UTF16LittleEndian,
+		UTF16BigEndian
+	}
+}
diff --git a/CSharp/Libraries/UniversalEditor.Essential/DataFormats/Text/Plain/PlainTextDataFormat.cs b/CSharp/Libraries/UniversalEditor.Essential/DataFormats/Text/Plain/PlainTextDataFormat.cs
index 18611b9e..27f8ae5a 100644
--- a/CSharp/Libraries/UniversalEditor.Essential/DataFormats/Text/Plain/PlainTextDataFormat.cs
+++ b/CSharp/Libraries/UniversalEditor.Essential/DataFormats/Text/Plain/PlainTextDataFormat.cs
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ namespace UniversalEditor.DataFormats.Text.Plain
 			return _dfr;
 		}
 
+		public ByteOrderMark ByteOrderMark { get; set; } = ByteOrderMark.None;
+
 		protected override void LoadInternal(ref ObjectModel objectModel)
 		{
 			PlainTextObjectModel ptom = (objectModel as PlainTextObjectModel);
@@ -44,6 +46,38 @@ namespace UniversalEditor.DataFormats.Text.Plain
 				throw new ObjectModelNotSupportedException();
 
 			Reader reader = Accessor.Reader;
+
+			// determine if we have BOM
+			if (reader.Accessor.Length >= 4)
+			{
+				byte b1 = reader.ReadByte();
+				byte b2 = reader.ReadByte();
+				byte b3 = reader.ReadByte();
+				byte b4 = reader.ReadByte();
+				if (b1 == 0xEF && b2 == 0xBB && b3 == 0xBF)
+				{
+					ByteOrderMark = ByteOrderMark.UTF8;
+					reader.Accessor.Seek(-1, SeekOrigin.Current);
+				}
+				else if ((b1 == 0xFE && b2 == 0xFF) || (b1 == 0xFF && b2 == 0xFE))
+				{
+					if (b1 == 0xFE && b2 == 0xFF)
+					{
+						ByteOrderMark = ByteOrderMark.UTF16LittleEndian;
+					}
+					else
+					{
+						ByteOrderMark = ByteOrderMark.UTF16BigEndian;
+					}
+					reader.Accessor.Seek(-2, SeekOrigin.Current);
+				}
+				else
+				{
+					ByteOrderMark = ByteOrderMark.None;
+					reader.Accessor.Seek(-4, SeekOrigin.Current);
+				}
+			}
+
 			while (!reader.EndOfStream)
 			{
 				string line = reader.ReadLine();
diff --git a/CSharp/Libraries/UniversalEditor.Essential/UniversalEditor.Essential.csproj b/CSharp/Libraries/UniversalEditor.Essential/UniversalEditor.Essential.csproj
index 2cb1a493..3b34843e 100644
--- a/CSharp/Libraries/UniversalEditor.Essential/UniversalEditor.Essential.csproj
+++ b/CSharp/Libraries/UniversalEditor.Essential/UniversalEditor.Essential.csproj
@@ -188,6 +188,7 @@
     <Compile Include="ObjectModels\BinaryGrammar\GrammarItems\GrammarItemNumber.cs" />
     <Compile Include="ObjectModels\BinaryGrammar\GrammarItems\GrammarItemString.cs" />
     <Compile Include="ObjectModels\BinaryGrammar\FixedValue.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="DataFormats\Text\Plain\ByteOrderMark.cs" />
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
     <ProjectReference Include="..\UniversalEditor.Core\UniversalEditor.Core.csproj">