diff --git a/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/pdf/convert_from.py b/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/pdf/convert_from.py
index 9bd1d14f6b..a3d9098bc1 100644
--- a/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/pdf/convert_from.py
+++ b/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/pdf/convert_from.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ def generate_html(pathtopdf, logger):
     pf = PersistentTemporaryFile('.html')
     pf.close()
     # This is neccessary as pdftohtml doesn't always (linux) respect absolute paths
-    cmd = PDFTOHTML + ' -noframes -p -nomerge "%s" "%s"'%(pathtopdf, os.path.basename(pf.name))
+    cmd = PDFTOHTML + ' -enc UTF-8 -noframes -p -nomerge "%s" "%s"'%(pathtopdf, os.path.basename(pf.name))
     cwd = os.getcwd()
     try:
         os.chdir(os.path.dirname(pf.name))