How to add a UTF-8 BOM in Java?

BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(...), StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
out.write('\ufeff');
out.write(...);

This correctly writes out 0xEF 0xBB 0xBF to the file, which is the UTF-8 representation of the BOM.

Just in case people are using PrintStreams, you need to do it a little differently. While a Writer will do some magic to convert a single byte into 3 bytes, a PrintStream requires all 3 bytes of the UTF-8 BOM individually:

    // Print utf-8 BOM
    PrintStream out = System.out;
    out.write('\ufeef'); // emits 0xef
    out.write('\ufebb'); // emits 0xbb
    out.write('\ufebf'); // emits 0xbf

Alternatively, you can use the hex values for those directly:

    PrintStream out = System.out;
    out.write(0xef); // emits 0xef
    out.write(0xbb); // emits 0xbb
    out.write(0xbf); // emits 0xbf

To write a BOM in UTF-8 you need PrintStream.print(), not PrintStream.write().

Also if you want to have BOM in your csv file, I guess you need to print a BOM after putNextEntry().