diff --git a/misc/vim/ftdetect/gofiletype.vim b/misc/vim/ftdetect/gofiletype.vim
index e50c29270c0..f03a1d8dc31 100644
--- a/misc/vim/ftdetect/gofiletype.vim
+++ b/misc/vim/ftdetect/gofiletype.vim
@@ -1 +1 @@
-au BufRead,BufNewFile *.go set fileencoding=utf-8 filetype=go
+au BufReadPre,BufNewFile *.go set filetype=go fileencoding=utf-8 fileencodings=utf-8