diff --git a/adminer/include/functions.inc.php b/adminer/include/functions.inc.php
index e1c2ffe1a..977d4869f 100644
--- a/adminer/include/functions.inc.php
+++ b/adminer/include/functions.inc.php
@@ -489,10 +489,18 @@ function get_file($key, $decompress = false) {
 	if (!$file || $file["error"]) {
 		return $file["error"];
 	}
-	return file_get_contents($decompress && ereg('\\.gz$', $file["name"]) ? "compress.zlib://$file[tmp_name]"
+	$return = file_get_contents($decompress && ereg('\\.gz$', $file["name"]) ? "compress.zlib://$file[tmp_name]"
 		: ($decompress && ereg('\\.bz2$', $file["name"]) ? "compress.bzip2://$file[tmp_name]"
 		: $file["tmp_name"]
 	)); //! may not be reachable because of open_basedir
+	if ($decompress) {
+		if (function_exists("iconv") && ereg("^\xFE\xFF|^\xFF\xFE", $return, $regs)) {
+			$return = iconv("utf-16", "utf-8", $return);
+		} else { // not ternary operator to save memory
+			$return = ereg_replace("^\xEF\xBB\xBF", "", $return); // UTF-8 BOM
+		}
+	}
+	return $return;
 }
 
 /** Determine upload error
diff --git a/adminer/select.inc.php b/adminer/select.inc.php
index 4d2f9b477..d5af997cf 100644
--- a/adminer/select.inc.php
+++ b/adminer/select.inc.php
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
 				queries_redirect(remove_from_uri(), lang('%d item(s) have been affected.', $affected), $result);
 			}
 		} elseif (is_string($file = get_file("csv_file", true))) {
-			$file = preg_replace("~^\xEF\xBB\xBF~", '', $file); //! character set
+			//! character set
 			$result = true;
 			$cols = array_keys($fields);
 			preg_match_all('~(?>"[^"]*"|[^"\\r\\n]+)+~', $file, $matches);