2 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/OpenSim/Framework/Serialization/TarArchiveWriter.cs b/OpenSim/Framework/Serialization/TarArchiveWriter.cs
index 122fa8e..2a3bc48 100644
--- a/OpenSim/Framework/Serialization/TarArchiveWriter.cs
+++ b/OpenSim/Framework/Serialization/TarArchiveWriter.cs
@@ -41,8 +41,6 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework.Serialization
     {
 //        private static readonly ILog m_log = LogManager.GetLogger(MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().DeclaringType);
 
-        protected static UTF8Encoding m_utf8Encoding = new UTF8Encoding();
-
         /// <summary>
         /// Binary writer for the underlying stream
         /// </summary>
@@ -73,7 +71,7 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework.Serialization
         /// <param name="data"></param>
         public void WriteFile(string filePath, string data)
         {
-            WriteFile(filePath, m_utf8Encoding.GetBytes(data));
+            WriteFile(filePath, Util.UTF8NoBomEncoding.GetBytes(data));
         }
 
         /// <summary>
diff --git a/OpenSim/Framework/Util.cs b/OpenSim/Framework/Util.cs
index fd9586c..8cc29ee 100644
--- a/OpenSim/Framework/Util.cs
+++ b/OpenSim/Framework/Util.cs
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework
         }
 
         public static Encoding UTF8 = Encoding.UTF8;
+        public static Encoding UTF8NoBomEncoding = new UTF8Encoding(false);
 
         /// <value>
         /// Well known UUID for the blank texture used in the Linden SL viewer version 1.20 (and hopefully onwards)