diff --git a/src/Mod/TechDraw/Gui/QGVPage.cpp b/src/Mod/TechDraw/Gui/QGVPage.cpp
index a6b1e51696..1c30fc1fb5 100644
--- a/src/Mod/TechDraw/Gui/QGVPage.cpp
+++ b/src/Mod/TechDraw/Gui/QGVPage.cpp
@@ -976,7 +976,7 @@ void QGVPage::postProcessXml(QTemporaryFile& temporaryFile, QString fileName, QS
     }
 
     QTextStream stream( &outFile );
-    stream.setGenerateByteOrderMark(true);
+    stream.setGenerateByteOrderMark(false);
     stream.setCodec("UTF-8");
 
     stream << exportDoc.toByteArray();