diff --git a/config/initializers/pdfkit.rb b/config/initializers/pdfkit.rb
index d7bbc64b8..eb0828729 100644
--- a/config/initializers/pdfkit.rb
+++ b/config/initializers/pdfkit.rb
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ PDFKit.configure do |config|
   config.wkhtmltopdf = installed
   config.default_options = {
     page_size: 'A4',
-    quiet: true
+    quiet: true,
+    encoding: 'utf-8',
     # :print_media_type => true
   }
 end