diff --git a/frontends/src/jp/cmd_blog.py b/frontends/src/jp/cmd_blog.py
index 47e3f9a3..0fedf5c5 100644
--- a/frontends/src/jp/cmd_blog.py
+++ b/frontends/src/jp/cmd_blog.py
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ class Edit(base.CommandBase, BlogCommon):
 
             else:
                 # we can now send the blog
-                mb_data['content_rich'] =  content.decode('utf-8')
+                mb_data['content_rich'] =  content.decode('utf-8-sig') # we use utf-8-sig to avoid BOM
 
                 if item_ori_mb_data is not None:
                     mb_data['id'] = item_ori_mb_data['id']
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ class Preview(base.CommandBase, BlogCommon):
 
     def updateContent(self):
         with open(self.content_file_path, 'rb') as f:
-            content = f.read().decode('utf-8')
+            content = f.read().decode('utf-8-sig')
             if content and self.syntax != 'XHTML':
                 # we use safe=True because we want to have a preview as close as possible to what the
                 # people will see