diff --git a/test-src/nu/validator/htmlparser/test/TokenizerTester.java b/test-src/nu/validator/htmlparser/test/TokenizerTester.java
index e33b5947..98cd9972 100644
--- a/test-src/nu/validator/htmlparser/test/TokenizerTester.java
+++ b/test-src/nu/validator/htmlparser/test/TokenizerTester.java
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ private TokenizerTester(InputStream stream) throws TokenStreamException,
         driver.setNamePolicy(XmlViolationPolicy.ALLOW);
         driver.setXmlnsPolicy(XmlViolationPolicy.ALLOW);
         driver.setErrorHandler(tokenHandler);
+        driver.dontSwallowBom();
         writer = new OutputStreamWriter(System.out, "UTF-8");
         JSONParser jsonParser = new JSONParser(new InputStreamReader(stream,
                 "UTF-8"));