--- Lib/json/__init__.py~	2014-05-17 10:11:32.362403898 -0400
+++ Lib/json/__init__.py	2014-05-17 10:27:15.263079490 -0400
@@ -283,6 +283,12 @@ def load(fp, encoding=None, cls=None, ob
     kwarg; otherwise ``JSONDecoder`` is used.
 
     """
+    if encoding in [None, "utf-8"]:
+        bom = fp.read(3)
+        if bom is not "\xef\xbb\xbf":
+            encoding = "utf-8"
+            fp.seek(0)
+
     return loads(fp.read(),
         encoding=encoding, cls=cls, object_hook=object_hook,
         parse_float=parse_float, parse_int=parse_int,