diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 552a8dd8e..b0e9b013c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2004-08-01  Moritz Bunkus  <moritz@bunkus.org>
 
+	* mkvextract: bug fix: The CUE extraction wrote UTF-8 characters
+	but no UTF-8 BOM (byte order marker) at the beginning.
+
 	* mkvmerge: bug fix: Handle TTA files with ID3 tags correctly ( =
 	skip the ID3 tags).
 
diff --git a/src/mkvextract_cuesheets.cpp b/src/mkvextract_cuesheets.cpp
index 11258356d..8c751c27b 100644
--- a/src/mkvextract_cuesheets.cpp
+++ b/src/mkvextract_cuesheets.cpp
@@ -284,6 +284,8 @@ write_cuesheet(const char *file_name,
   if (chapters.ListSize() == 0)
     return;
 
+  out.write_bom("UTF-8");
+
   print_if_global("CATALOG", "CATALOG %s\n");
   print_if_global("ARTIST", "PERFORMER \"%s\"\n");
   print_if_global("TITLE", "TITLE \"%s\"\n");