diff --git a/codesite2git b/codesite2git
index 7e99a72..3976579 100755
--- a/codesite2git
+++ b/codesite2git
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ class CProjectGitExporter extends CProject {
 
         // Prepare to start modifying the generated README.md file
         $this->longdesc = preg_replace('~\\[url=([^\\]]+?)\\](.+?)\\[/url\\]~m', '[\\2](\\1)', $this->longdesc);
+        $this->longdesc = str_replace("\xEF\xBB\xBF", "", $this->longdesc); // Remove interior UTF-8 BOM markers
+        $this->longdesc = str_replace("\r", "", $this->longdesc); // dos2unix
+
         $lines = explode("\n", $this->longdesc);
         $lines = array_merge(["# ".$this->projname, ""], $lines);