diff --git a/src/services/import/samples/UTF-16LE Text Note.txt b/src/services/import/samples/UTF-16LE Text Note.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c76e1ddd7
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diff --git a/src/services/import/single.spec.ts b/src/services/import/single.spec.ts
index f4e0cff11..6e35ebe1a 100644
--- a/src/services/import/single.spec.ts
+++ b/src/services/import/single.spec.ts
@@ -66,4 +66,10 @@ describe("processNoteContent", () => {
         expect(importedNote.mime).toBe("application/json");
         expect(importedNote.getContent().toString()).toStrictEqual(stripBom(buffer.toString("utf-16le")));
     });
+
+    it("supports plain text note with UTF-16", async () => {
+        const { importedNote } = await testImport("UTF-16LE Text Note.txt", "text/plain");
+        expect(importedNote.mime).toBe("text/html");
+        expect(importedNote.getContent().toString()).toBe("<p>Plain text goes here.<br></p>");
+    });
 })
diff --git a/src/services/import/single.ts b/src/services/import/single.ts
index f9b96cfcd..f55c84bfc 100644
--- a/src/services/import/single.ts
+++ b/src/services/import/single.ts
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ function importCodeNote(taskContext: TaskContext, file: File, parentNote: BNote)
 
 function importPlainText(taskContext: TaskContext, file: File, parentNote: BNote) {
     const title = getNoteTitle(file.originalname, !!taskContext.data?.replaceUnderscoresWithSpaces);
-    const plainTextContent = file.buffer.toString("utf-8");
+    const plainTextContent = processStringOrBuffer(file.buffer);
     const htmlContent = convertTextToHtml(plainTextContent);
 
     const { note } = noteService.createNewNote({