diff --git a/nlp b/nlp
index 74cd2b2..482ca7a 100755
--- a/nlp
+++ b/nlp
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ def parse_arguments():
                         action='store_true',
                         default=False,
                         dest="check_encoding",
-                        help='''if used the nlp process will know hat the encoding of 
+                        help='''if used the nlp process will know hat the encoding of
                         the input files is unkown and thus != utf-8. The process will
                         try to determine the encoding of the input files and use this.
                         encoding.'''
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ class NLPWorkflow(WorkflowRunner):
         self.n_cores = args.n_cores
         self.output_dir = args.output_dir
         self.zip = args.zip
-        self.check_encoding
+        self.check_encoding = args.check_encoding
 
     def workflow(self):
         if len(self.jobs) == 0:
@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ class NLPWorkflow(WorkflowRunner):
             cmd = 'spacy_nlp -l "{}" "{}" "{}" "{}"'.format(
                 self.lang,
                 job['path'],
-                os.path.join(job['output_dir'], job['name'] + '.vrt',
-                if self.check_encoding "--check-encoding" else "")
+                os.path.join(job['output_dir'], job['name'] + '.vrt'),
+                "--check-encoding" if self.check_encoding else ""
             )
             nlp_jobs.append(
                 self.addTask(
diff --git a/spacy_nlp b/spacy_nlp
index 1cb4ac4..d65dd81 100755
--- a/spacy_nlp
+++ b/spacy_nlp
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 from xml.sax.saxutils import escape
 import argparse
-import os
+import chardet
 import spacy
 import textwrap