diff --git a/src/vm/wren_compiler.c b/src/vm/wren_compiler.c
index d90273bf..c6a968c0 100644
--- a/src/vm/wren_compiler.c
+++ b/src/vm/wren_compiler.c
@@ -3420,6 +3420,12 @@ void definition(Compiler* compiler)
 ObjFn* wrenCompile(WrenVM* vm, ObjModule* module, const char* source,
                    bool isExpression, bool printErrors)
 {
+  // Skip potential UTF-8 BOM
+  if (strncmp(source, "\xEF\xBB\xBF", 3) == 0)
+  {
+    source += 3;
+  }
+
   Parser parser;
   parser.vm = vm;
   parser.module = module;
@@ -3447,7 +3453,7 @@ ObjFn* wrenCompile(WrenVM* vm, ObjModule* module, const char* source,
   nextToken(&parser);
 
   int numExistingVariables = module->variables.count;
-  
+
   Compiler compiler;
   initCompiler(&compiler, &parser, NULL, false);
   ignoreNewlines(&compiler);
diff --git a/test/regression/520.wren b/test/regression/520.wren
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6eddf921
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/regression/520.wren
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+// This file should have a UTF-8 byte order mark
+System.print("ok") // expect: ok