diff --git a/recipes/kath_net.recipe b/recipes/kath_net.recipe
index e758f6f601..c81d5f4d0f 100644
--- a/recipes/kath_net.recipe
+++ b/recipes/kath_net.recipe
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ class AdvancedUserRecipe1608358960(BasicNewsRecipe):
     max_articles_per_feed = 25
     auto_cleanup   = True
     no_stylesheets = True
-    encoding = 'iso-8859-1'
+    encoding = 'utf-8'
 
     feeds          = [
         ('kath.net', 'https://www.kath.net/ticker/index.xml'),