function Test-FileBOM {
    <#
    .SYNOPSIS
        Tests given file if native utf8 w/o BOM is used. Returns false if BOM is present.

    .DESCRIPTION
        This function is used to test for a valid encoding without BOM.

    .PARAMETER Path
        Full or relative path to existing file.

    .INPUTS
        [None]

    .OUTPUTS
        [bool]

    .EXAMPLE
        Test-FileBOM -Path './Testfile.txt'

    .NOTES
    #>

    [CmdletBinding()]
    [OutputType([bool])]

    param (
        [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
        [ValidateScript(
            {
                Test-Path -Path $_
            }
        )]
        [string]$Path
    )

    begin {
    }

    process {
        try {
            $contents = [byte[]]::new(3)
            $stream = [System.IO.File]::OpenRead($Path)
            $stream.Read($contents, 0, 3) | Out-Null
            $stream.Close()
        }
        catch {
            Write-Error -Message 'Could not read the given file!' -ErrorAction 'Stop'
        }
        Write-Debug -Message ('BOM Content was: {0}' -f ([System.BitConverter]::ToString($contents)))
        if ( $contents[0] -eq 0xEF -and $contents[1] -eq 0xBB -and $contents -eq 0xBF ) {
            Write-Output $false
        }
        else {
            Write-Output $true
        }
    }

    end {
    }
}