diff --git a/lib/parse.js b/lib/parse.js
index 53aaabd6..3cc2da51 100644
--- a/lib/parse.js
+++ b/lib/parse.js
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ var EX_EOF = {};
 function tokenizer($TEXT, filename, html5_comments) {
 
     var S = {
-        text            : $TEXT.replace(/\uFEFF/g, ''),
+        text            : $TEXT.replace(/^\uFEFF/g, ''),
         filename        : filename,
         pos             : 0,
         tokpos          : 0,