so I kinda assume that Perl will handle with this kind of stuff for me.

Having Perl remove the BOM automatically would be bad. print while <$fh>; would no longer print out a file exactly, for example. It wouldn't be possible to print out a file exactly by other means either.

However, if file contains that BOM, my program does not understand the first line in the file

Patient: "Doctor, it hurts when I do this."
Doctor: "So don't do it!"

If your program doesn't accept BOMs, don't feed it any. BOMs are not required.

Alternatively, you could change your spec and your program to accept it. 

while (<$fh>) {
   s/\x{FEFF}//g;
   ...
}

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in thread UTF-8 text files with Byte Order Mark by muba

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