--- class.t3lib_div.php	2009-02-10 09:36:26.000000000 +0100
+++ class.t3lib_div.php.new	2009-06-25 13:41:48.000000000 +0200
@@ -2343,12 +2343,19 @@
 		xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, 0);
 		xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE, 0);
 
 			// default output charset is UTF-8, only ASCII, ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 are supported!!!
 		$match = array();
-		preg_match('/^[[:space:]]*<\?xml[^>]*encoding[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*"([^"]*)"/',substr($string,0,200),$match);
-		$theCharset = $match[1] ? $match[1] : ($TYPO3_CONF_VARS['BE']['forceCharset'] ? $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['BE']['forceCharset'] : 'iso-8859-1');
+			// Check for UTF-8 BOM
+		if(substr($string, 0,3) == chr(0xEF).chr(0xBB).chr(0xBF)) {
+			$string = substr($string, 3);
+			$theCharset = 'utf-8';
+		}
+		else {
+			preg_match('/^[[:space:]]*<\?xml[^>]*encoding[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*"([^"]*)"/',substr($string,0,200),$match);
+			$theCharset = $match[1] ? $match[1] : ($TYPO3_CONF_VARS['BE']['forceCharset'] ? $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['BE']['forceCharset'] : 'iso-8859-1');
+		}
 		xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_TARGET_ENCODING, $theCharset);  // us-ascii / utf-8 / iso-8859-1
 
 			// Parse content:
 		xml_parse_into_struct($parser, $string, $vals, $index);