diff --git a/src/ccextractor.c b/src/ccextractor.c
index ea34aad9..526f00f5 100644
--- a/src/ccextractor.c
+++ b/src/ccextractor.c
@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ void init_options (struct ccx_s_options *options)
 	options->nofontcolor=0; // 1 = don't put <font color> tags 
 	options->notypesetting=0; // 1 = Don't put <i>, <u>, etc typesetting tags
 
+	options->no_bom = 0; // Use BOM by default.
+
 	options->settings_608.direct_rollup = 0;
 	options->settings_608.no_rollup = 0;
 	options->settings_608.force_rollup = 0;
@@ -456,22 +458,27 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 				}
 				switch (ccx_options.write_format)
 				{
-					case CCX_OF_RAW:
-						writeraw (BROADCAST_HEADER,sizeof (BROADCAST_HEADER),&wbout1);
-						break;
-					case CCX_OF_DVDRAW:
-						break;
-					case CCX_OF_RCWT:
-						if( init_encoder(enc_ctx,&wbout1) )
-							fatal (EXIT_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY, "Not enough memory\n");
-						break;
-					default:
-						if (ccx_options.encoding==CCX_ENC_UTF_8) // Write BOM
-							writeraw (UTF8_BOM, sizeof (UTF8_BOM), &wbout1);
-						if (ccx_options.encoding==CCX_ENC_UNICODE) // Write BOM				
-							writeraw (LITTLE_ENDIAN_BOM, sizeof (LITTLE_ENDIAN_BOM), &wbout1);
-						if( init_encoder(enc_ctx,&wbout1) )
-							fatal (EXIT_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY, "Not enough memory\n");
+				case CCX_OF_RAW:
+					writeraw(BROADCAST_HEADER, sizeof(BROADCAST_HEADER), &wbout1);
+					break;
+				case CCX_OF_DVDRAW:
+					break;
+				case CCX_OF_RCWT:
+					if (init_encoder(enc_ctx, &wbout1))
+						fatal(EXIT_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY, "Not enough memory\n");
+					break;
+				default:
+					if (!ccx_options.no_bom){
+						if (ccx_options.encoding == CCX_ENC_UTF_8){ // Write BOM
+							writeraw(UTF8_BOM, sizeof(UTF8_BOM), &wbout1);
+						}
+						if (ccx_options.encoding == CCX_ENC_UNICODE){ // Write BOM				
+							writeraw(LITTLE_ENDIAN_BOM, sizeof(LITTLE_ENDIAN_BOM), &wbout1);
+						}
+					}
+					if (init_encoder(enc_ctx, &wbout1)){
+						fatal(EXIT_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY, "Not enough memory\n");
+					}
 				}
 			}
 			if (ccx_options.extract == 12 && ccx_options.write_format != CCX_OF_RAW)
@@ -517,12 +524,17 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 							fatal (EXIT_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY, "Not enough memory\n");
 						break;
 					default:
-						if (ccx_options.encoding==CCX_ENC_UTF_8) // Write BOM
-							writeraw (UTF8_BOM, sizeof (UTF8_BOM), &wbout2);
-						if (ccx_options.encoding==CCX_ENC_UNICODE) // Write BOM				
-							writeraw (LITTLE_ENDIAN_BOM, sizeof (LITTLE_ENDIAN_BOM), &wbout2);
-						if( init_encoder(enc_ctx+1,&wbout2) )
-							fatal (EXIT_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY, "Not enough memory\n");
+						if (!ccx_options.no_bom){
+							if (ccx_options.encoding == CCX_ENC_UTF_8){ // Write BOM
+								writeraw(UTF8_BOM, sizeof(UTF8_BOM), &wbout2);
+							}
+							if (ccx_options.encoding == CCX_ENC_UNICODE){ // Write BOM				
+								writeraw(LITTLE_ENDIAN_BOM, sizeof(LITTLE_ENDIAN_BOM), &wbout2);
+							}
+						}
+						if (init_encoder(enc_ctx + 1, &wbout2)){
+							fatal(EXIT_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY, "Not enough memory\n");
+						}
 				}
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/src/ccextractor.h b/src/ccextractor.h
index 6691da3f..1a559087 100644
--- a/src/ccextractor.h
+++ b/src/ccextractor.h
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ struct ccx_s_options // Options from user parameters
 	struct ccx_boundary_time extraction_start, extraction_end; // Segment we actually process
 	int print_file_reports;
 
+	int no_bom; // Set to 1 when no BOM (Byte Order Mark) should be used for files. Note, this might make files unreadable in windows!
+
 	ccx_decoder_608_settings settings_608; //  Contains the settings for the 608 decoder.
 
 	/* subtitle codec type */
@@ -107,8 +109,7 @@ struct ccx_s_options // Options from user parameters
 	char *srv_port;
 	int line_terminator_lf; // 0 = CRLF, 1=LF
 	int noautotimeref; // Do NOT set time automatically?
-	enum ccx_datasource input_source; // Files, stdin or network
-	
+	enum ccx_datasource input_source; // Files, stdin or network	
 };
 
 struct ts_payload
diff --git a/src/params.c b/src/params.c
index 0257a163..771c2014 100644
--- a/src/params.c
+++ b/src/params.c
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ void usage (void)
 	mprint ("          -1, -2, -12: Output Field 1 data, Field 2 data, or both\n");
 	mprint ("                       (DEFAULT is -1)\n");
 	mprint ("                 -cc2: When in srt/sami mode, process captions in channel 2\n");
-	mprint ("                       instead channel 1.\n");
+	mprint ("                       instead of channel 1.\n");
 	mprint ("-svc --service N,N...: Enabled CEA-708 captions processing for the listed\n");
 	mprint ("                       services. The parameter is a command delimited list\n");
 	mprint ("                       of services numbers, such as \"1,2\" to process the\n");
@@ -477,6 +477,8 @@ void usage (void)
 	mprint ("                       affects Teletext in timed transcript with -datets.\n");
 	mprint ("\n");
 	mprint ("Options that affect what kind of output will be produced:\n");
+	mprint("				-nobom: Do not append a BOM (Byte Order Mark) to output files.");
+	mprint("						Note that this may break files when using Windows.");
 	mprint ("             -unicode: Encode subtitles in Unicode instead of Latin-1.\n");
 	mprint ("                -utf8: Encode subtitles in UTF-8 (no longer needed.\n");
 	mprint ("                       because UTF-8 is now the default).\n");
@@ -863,6 +865,9 @@ void parse_parameters (int argc, char *argv[])
 			ccx_options.nofontcolor=1;
 			continue;
 		}
+		if (strcmp(argv[i], "-nobom") == 0){
+			ccx_options.no_bom = 1;
+		}
 		if (strcmp (argv[i],"-nots")==0 ||
 				strcmp (argv[i],"--notypesetting")==0)
 		{
@@ -1425,6 +1430,7 @@ void parse_parameters (int argc, char *argv[])
 		if (strcmp (argv[i],"-UCLA")==0 || strcmp (argv[i],"-ucla")==0)
 		{
 			ccx_options.millis_separator='.';
+			ccx_options.no_bom = 1;
 			if (!ccx_options.transcript_settings.isFinal){
 				ccx_options.transcript_settings.showStartTime = 1;
 				ccx_options.transcript_settings.showEndTime = 1;