diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/freebsd-tips b/games/fortune/datfiles/freebsd-tips
index c3fd33390882..8aae134e3708 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/freebsd-tips
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/freebsd-tips
@@ -499,3 +499,7 @@ of the man(1) utility: ``man -t <topic>''.  For example:
 	man -t grep > grep.ps	# Save the PostScript version to a file
 or
 	man -t printf | lp	# Send the PostScript directly to printer
+%
+Want to strip UTF-8 BOM(Byte Order Mark) from given files?
+
+	sed -e '1s/^\xef\xbb\xbf//' < bomfile > newfile