diff --git a/admin/config.rb b/admin/config.rb
index 5dedea4af..0778f6195 100644
--- a/admin/config.rb
+++ b/admin/config.rb
@@ -17,4 +17,6 @@ relative_assets = true
 # to be verbose 
 line_comments = false
 
-asset_cache_buster :none
\ No newline at end of file
+asset_cache_buster :none
+
+Encoding.default_external = "utf-8"
diff --git a/config.rb b/config.rb
index 5dedea4af..0778f6195 100644
--- a/config.rb
+++ b/config.rb
@@ -17,4 +17,6 @@ relative_assets = true
 # to be verbose 
 line_comments = false
 
-asset_cache_buster :none
\ No newline at end of file
+asset_cache_buster :none
+
+Encoding.default_external = "utf-8"