diff --git a/pmd-jsp/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/cpd/JSPTokenizer.java b/pmd-jsp/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/cpd/JSPTokenizer.java
index 9fe761c348..f4301169f8 100644
--- a/pmd-jsp/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/cpd/JSPTokenizer.java
+++ b/pmd-jsp/src/main/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/cpd/JSPTokenizer.java
@@ -3,27 +3,41 @@
  */
 package net.sourceforge.pmd.cpd;
 
+import java.io.Reader;
 import java.io.StringReader;
 
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
+
 import net.sourceforge.pmd.lang.LanguageRegistry;
 import net.sourceforge.pmd.lang.LanguageVersionHandler;
 import net.sourceforge.pmd.lang.TokenManager;
 import net.sourceforge.pmd.lang.jsp.JspLanguageModule;
 import net.sourceforge.pmd.lang.jsp.ast.Token;
+import net.sourceforge.pmd.util.IOUtil;
 
 public class JSPTokenizer implements Tokenizer {
 
-    public void tokenize(SourceCode sourceCode, Tokens tokenEntries) {
-	StringBuilder buffer = sourceCode.getCodeBuffer();
-	LanguageVersionHandler languageVersionHandler = LanguageRegistry.getLanguage(JspLanguageModule.NAME).getDefaultVersion().getLanguageVersionHandler();
-	TokenManager tokenMgr = languageVersionHandler.getParser(languageVersionHandler.getDefaultParserOptions())
-		.getTokenManager(sourceCode.getFileName(), new StringReader(buffer.toString()));
-	Token currentToken = (Token) tokenMgr.getNextToken();
-	while (currentToken.image.length() > 0) {
-	    tokenEntries.add(new TokenEntry(String.valueOf(currentToken.kind), sourceCode.getFileName(),
-		    currentToken.beginLine));
-	    currentToken = (Token) tokenMgr.getNextToken();
+	public void tokenize(SourceCode sourceCode, Tokens tokenEntries) {
+		StringBuilder buffer = sourceCode.getCodeBuffer();
+		LanguageVersionHandler languageVersionHandler = 
+				LanguageRegistry.getLanguage(JspLanguageModule.NAME).getDefaultVersion().getLanguageVersionHandler();
+		Reader reader = null;
+
+		try {
+			reader = new StringReader(buffer.toString());
+			reader = IOUtil.skipBOM(reader);
+			TokenManager tokenMgr = languageVersionHandler.getParser(languageVersionHandler.getDefaultParserOptions())
+					.getTokenManager(sourceCode.getFileName(), reader);
+			Token currentToken = (Token) tokenMgr.getNextToken();
+
+			while (currentToken.image.length() > 0) {
+				tokenEntries.add(new TokenEntry(String.valueOf(currentToken.kind), sourceCode.getFileName(),
+						currentToken.beginLine));
+				currentToken = (Token) tokenMgr.getNextToken();
+			}
+		} finally {
+			IOUtils.closeQuietly(reader);
+		}
+		tokenEntries.add(TokenEntry.getEOF());
 	}
-	tokenEntries.add(TokenEntry.getEOF());
-    }
 }
diff --git a/src/site/markdown/overview/changelog.md b/src/site/markdown/overview/changelog.md
index bda43e573d..287c4abd5b 100644
--- a/src/site/markdown/overview/changelog.md
+++ b/src/site/markdown/overview/changelog.md
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 **Pull Requests:**
 
 *   [#27](https://github.com/adangel/pmd/pull/27): Added support for Raw String Literals (C++11).
+*   [#29)(https://github.com/adangel/pmd/pull/29): Added support for files with UTF-8 BOM to JSP tokenizer.
 *   [#79](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/79): do not flag public static void main(String[]) as UseVarargs; ignore @Override for UseVarargs
 *   [#80](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/80): Update mvn-plugin.md
 *   [#83](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/83): Adds new Code Climate-compliant JSON renderer