diff --git a/modules/platform/nuxeo-platform-directory/nuxeo-platform-directory-core/pom.xml b/modules/platform/nuxeo-platform-directory/nuxeo-platform-directory-core/pom.xml
index a56b9537b60..aa050773d4f 100644
--- a/modules/platform/nuxeo-platform-directory/nuxeo-platform-directory-core/pom.xml
+++ b/modules/platform/nuxeo-platform-directory/nuxeo-platform-directory-core/pom.xml
@@ -77,6 +77,10 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-csv</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
+      <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.nuxeo.common</groupId>
       <artifactId>nuxeo-common</artifactId>
@@ -136,4 +140,4 @@
     </plugins>
   </build>
 
-</project>
\ No newline at end of file
+</project>
diff --git a/modules/platform/nuxeo-platform-directory/nuxeo-platform-directory-core/src/main/java/org/nuxeo/ecm/directory/DirectoryCSVLoader.java b/modules/platform/nuxeo-platform-directory/nuxeo-platform-directory-core/src/main/java/org/nuxeo/ecm/directory/DirectoryCSVLoader.java
index 2d1ad1494b6..096e3a01d84 100644
--- a/modules/platform/nuxeo-platform-directory/nuxeo-platform-directory-core/src/main/java/org/nuxeo/ecm/directory/DirectoryCSVLoader.java
+++ b/modules/platform/nuxeo-platform-directory/nuxeo-platform-directory-core/src/main/java/org/nuxeo/ecm/directory/DirectoryCSVLoader.java
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ import java.util.function.Consumer;
 import org.apache.commons.csv.CSVFormat;
 import org.apache.commons.csv.CSVParser;
 import org.apache.commons.csv.CSVRecord;
+import org.apache.commons.io.input.BOMInputStream;
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
@@ -106,8 +107,7 @@ public class DirectoryCSVLoader {
     public static void loadData(Blob dataBlob, char delimiter, Schema schema, Consumer<Map<String, Object>> loader) {
         BiConsumer<Map<String, Object>, Integer> loaderWithLineno = toLoaderEnrichedOnError(loader);
         String dataFileName = dataBlob.getFilename();
-        try (InputStream in = dataBlob.getStream();
-                CSVParser csvParser = new CSVParser(new InputStreamReader(in, UTF_8),
+        try (CSVParser csvParser = new CSVParser(new InputStreamReader(new BOMInputStream(dataBlob.getStream())),
                         CSVFormat.DEFAULT.withDelimiter(delimiter).withHeader())) {
 
             Map<String, Integer> header = csvParser.getHeaderMap();