diff --git a/src/libs/qmljs/qmljsinterpreter.cpp b/src/libs/qmljs/qmljsinterpreter.cpp
index ae8c1009723..24d68d4948e 100644
--- a/src/libs/qmljs/qmljsinterpreter.cpp
+++ b/src/libs/qmljs/qmljsinterpreter.cpp
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 
 #include <utils/qtcassert.h>
 
+#include <QApplication>
 #include <QFile>
 #include <QDir>
 #include <QString>
@@ -1253,7 +1254,8 @@ CppQmlTypesLoader::BuiltinObjects CppQmlTypesLoader::loadQmlTypes(const QFileInf
             QByteArray contents = file.readAll();
             file.close();
 
-            parseQmlTypeDescriptions(contents, &newObjects, 0, &error, &warning);
+
+            parseQmlTypeDescriptions(contents, &newObjects, 0, &error, &warning, qmlTypeFile.absoluteFilePath());
         } else {
             error = file.errorString();
         }
@@ -1272,15 +1274,28 @@ CppQmlTypesLoader::BuiltinObjects CppQmlTypesLoader::loadQmlTypes(const QFileInf
     return newObjects;
 }
 
-void CppQmlTypesLoader::parseQmlTypeDescriptions(const QByteArray &xml,
+void CppQmlTypesLoader::parseQmlTypeDescriptions(const QByteArray &contents,
                                                  BuiltinObjects *newObjects,
                                                  QList<ModuleApiInfo> *newModuleApis,
                                                  QString *errorMessage,
-                                                 QString *warningMessage)
+                                                 QString *warningMessage, const QString &fileName)
 {
+    if (!contents.isEmpty()) {
+        unsigned char c = contents.at(0);
+        switch (c) {
+        case 0xfe:
+        case 0xef:
+        case 0xff:
+        case 0xee:
+        case 0x00:
+            qWarning() << QApplication::translate("CppQmlTypesLoader", "%1 seems not to be encoded in UTF8 or has a BOM.").arg(fileName);
+        default: break;
+        }
+    }
+
     errorMessage->clear();
     warningMessage->clear();
-    TypeDescriptionReader reader(QString::fromUtf8(xml));
+    TypeDescriptionReader reader(QString::fromUtf8(contents));
     if (!reader(newObjects, newModuleApis)) {
         if (reader.errorMessage().isEmpty())
             *errorMessage = QLatin1String("unknown error");
diff --git a/src/libs/qmljs/qmljsinterpreter.h b/src/libs/qmljs/qmljsinterpreter.h
index 4eddbf64560..56f914713f1 100644
--- a/src/libs/qmljs/qmljsinterpreter.h
+++ b/src/libs/qmljs/qmljsinterpreter.h
@@ -608,10 +608,9 @@ public:
     static BuiltinObjects defaultLibraryObjects;
 
     // parses the contents of a qmltypes file and fills the newObjects map
-    static void parseQmlTypeDescriptions(
-        const QByteArray &qmlTypes,
+    static void parseQmlTypeDescriptions(const QByteArray &contents,
         BuiltinObjects *newObjects,
-        QList<ModuleApiInfo> *newModuleApis, QString *errorMessage, QString *warningMessage);
+        QList<ModuleApiInfo> *newModuleApis, QString *errorMessage, QString *warningMessage, const QString &fileName);
 };
 
 class QMLJS_EXPORT CppQmlTypes
diff --git a/src/plugins/qmljstools/qmljsplugindumper.cpp b/src/plugins/qmljstools/qmljsplugindumper.cpp
index cfb47d9001b..5338220afcf 100644
--- a/src/plugins/qmljstools/qmljsplugindumper.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/qmljstools/qmljsplugindumper.cpp
@@ -326,7 +326,8 @@ void PluginDumper::qmlPluginTypeDumpDone(int exitCode)
     QString warning;
     CppQmlTypesLoader::BuiltinObjects objectsList;
     QList<ModuleApiInfo> moduleApis;
-    CppQmlTypesLoader::parseQmlTypeDescriptions(output, &objectsList, &moduleApis, &error, &warning);
+    CppQmlTypesLoader::parseQmlTypeDescriptions(output, &objectsList, &moduleApis, &error, &warning,
+                                                QLatin1String("<dump of ") + libraryPath + QLatin1String(">"));
     if (exitCode == 0) {
         if (!error.isEmpty()) {
             libraryInfo.setPluginTypeInfoStatus(LibraryInfo::DumpError,
@@ -397,7 +398,7 @@ void PluginDumper::loadQmltypesFile(const QStringList &qmltypesFilePaths,
         QString warning;
         CppQmlTypesLoader::BuiltinObjects newObjects;
         QList<ModuleApiInfo> newModuleApis;
-        CppQmlTypesLoader::parseQmlTypeDescriptions(reader.data(), &newObjects, &newModuleApis, &error, &warning);
+        CppQmlTypesLoader::parseQmlTypeDescriptions(reader.data(), &newObjects, &newModuleApis, &error, &warning, qmltypesFilePath);
         if (!error.isEmpty()) {
             errors += tr("Failed to parse '%1'.\nError: %2").arg(qmltypesFilePath, error);
         } else {