diff --git a/Contributing.md b/Contributing.md
index 849424e..c587c89 100644
--- a/Contributing.md
+++ b/Contributing.md
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Before your contributions can be accepted, you must:
 * Object/namespace identifiers: CamelCase
 * Function/variable names: camelCase
 * Constants: UNDERSCORE_UPPER_CASE
-* Source code encoding: UTF-8 (without BOM)
+* Source code encoding: UTF-8
 * All source files must end with a newline
 * Line endings: UNIX style (\n)