diff --git a/lib/common/unicode.js b/lib/common/unicode.js
index a996dda88..8777e97ab 100644
--- a/lib/common/unicode.js
+++ b/lib/common/unicode.js
@@ -1,48 +1,47 @@
-'use strict';
-
-exports.REPLACEMENT_CHARACTER = '\uFFFD';
-
-exports.CODE_POINTS = {
-    EOF: -1,
-    NULL: 0x00,
-    TABULATION: 0x09,
-    CARRIAGE_RETURN: 0x0D,
-    LINE_FEED: 0x0A,
-    FORM_FEED: 0x0C,
-    SPACE: 0x20,
-    EXCLAMATION_MARK: 0x21,
-    QUOTATION_MARK: 0x22,
-    NUMBER_SIGN: 0x23,
-    AMPERSAND: 0x26,
-    APOSTROPHE: 0x27,
-    HYPHEN_MINUS: 0x2D,
-    SOLIDUS: 0x2F,
-    DIGIT_0: 0x30,
-    DIGIT_9: 0x39,
-    SEMICOLON: 0x3B,
-    LESS_THAN_SIGN: 0x3C,
-    EQUALS_SIGN: 0x3D,
-    GREATER_THAN_SIGN: 0x3E,
-    QUESTION_MARK: 0x3F,
-    LATIN_CAPITAL_A: 0x41,
-    LATIN_CAPITAL_F: 0x46,
-    LATIN_CAPITAL_X: 0x58,
-    LATIN_CAPITAL_Z: 0x5A,
-    GRAVE_ACCENT: 0x60,
-    LATIN_SMALL_A: 0x61,
-    LATIN_SMALL_F: 0x66,
-    LATIN_SMALL_X: 0x78,
-    LATIN_SMALL_Z: 0x7A,
-    BOM: 0xFEFF,
-    REPLACEMENT_CHARACTER: 0xFFFD
-};
-
-exports.CODE_POINT_SEQUENCES = {
-    DASH_DASH_STRING: [0x2D, 0x2D], //--
-    DOCTYPE_STRING: [0x44, 0x4F, 0x43, 0x54, 0x59, 0x50, 0x45], //DOCTYPE
-    CDATA_START_STRING: [0x5B, 0x43, 0x44, 0x41, 0x54, 0x41, 0x5B], //[CDATA[
-    CDATA_END_STRING: [0x5D, 0x5D, 0x3E], //]]>
-    SCRIPT_STRING: [0x73, 0x63, 0x72, 0x69, 0x70, 0x74], //script
-    PUBLIC_STRING: [0x50, 0x55, 0x42, 0x4C, 0x49, 0x43], //PUBLIC
-    SYSTEM_STRING: [0x53, 0x59, 0x53, 0x54, 0x45, 0x4D] //SYSTEM
-};
+'use strict';
+
+exports.REPLACEMENT_CHARACTER = '\uFFFD';
+
+exports.CODE_POINTS = {
+    EOF: -1,
+    NULL: 0x00,
+    TABULATION: 0x09,
+    CARRIAGE_RETURN: 0x0D,
+    LINE_FEED: 0x0A,
+    FORM_FEED: 0x0C,
+    SPACE: 0x20,
+    EXCLAMATION_MARK: 0x21,
+    QUOTATION_MARK: 0x22,
+    NUMBER_SIGN: 0x23,
+    AMPERSAND: 0x26,
+    APOSTROPHE: 0x27,
+    HYPHEN_MINUS: 0x2D,
+    SOLIDUS: 0x2F,
+    DIGIT_0: 0x30,
+    DIGIT_9: 0x39,
+    SEMICOLON: 0x3B,
+    LESS_THAN_SIGN: 0x3C,
+    EQUALS_SIGN: 0x3D,
+    GREATER_THAN_SIGN: 0x3E,
+    QUESTION_MARK: 0x3F,
+    LATIN_CAPITAL_A: 0x41,
+    LATIN_CAPITAL_F: 0x46,
+    LATIN_CAPITAL_X: 0x58,
+    LATIN_CAPITAL_Z: 0x5A,
+    GRAVE_ACCENT: 0x60,
+    LATIN_SMALL_A: 0x61,
+    LATIN_SMALL_F: 0x66,
+    LATIN_SMALL_X: 0x78,
+    LATIN_SMALL_Z: 0x7A,
+    REPLACEMENT_CHARACTER: 0xFFFD
+};
+
+exports.CODE_POINT_SEQUENCES = {
+    DASH_DASH_STRING: [0x2D, 0x2D], //--
+    DOCTYPE_STRING: [0x44, 0x4F, 0x43, 0x54, 0x59, 0x50, 0x45], //DOCTYPE
+    CDATA_START_STRING: [0x5B, 0x43, 0x44, 0x41, 0x54, 0x41, 0x5B], //[CDATA[
+    CDATA_END_STRING: [0x5D, 0x5D, 0x3E], //]]>
+    SCRIPT_STRING: [0x73, 0x63, 0x72, 0x69, 0x70, 0x74], //script
+    PUBLIC_STRING: [0x50, 0x55, 0x42, 0x4C, 0x49, 0x43], //PUBLIC
+    SYSTEM_STRING: [0x53, 0x59, 0x53, 0x54, 0x45, 0x4D] //SYSTEM
+};
diff --git a/lib/tokenizer/preprocessor.js b/lib/tokenizer/preprocessor.js
index 8237b4701..e8d21ce78 100644
--- a/lib/tokenizer/preprocessor.js
+++ b/lib/tokenizer/preprocessor.js
@@ -76,14 +76,9 @@ Preprocessor.prototype.write = function (chunk, isLastChunk) {
     if (this.html)
         this.html += chunk;
 
-    else {
+    else
         this.html = chunk;
 
-        //NOTE: one leading U+FEFF BYTE ORDER MARK character must be ignored if any are present in the input stream.
-        if (this.html.charCodeAt(0) === $.BOM)
-            this.pos = 0;
-    }
-
     this.lastCharPos = this.html.length - 1;
     this.endOfChunkHit = false;
     this.lastChunkWritten = isLastChunk;