diff --git a/foo.sh b/foo.sh
index 503f254..0aed67d 100755
--- a/foo.sh
+++ b/foo.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 mkdir -p /corpora/data/corpus
 cwb-encode \
+  -c utf8 \
   -d /corpora/data/corpus \
   -f /root/files/corpus.vrt \
   -R /usr/local/share/cwb/registry/corpus \