diff --git a/module/src/main/java/pl/clarin/any2txt/Converter.java b/module/src/main/java/pl/clarin/any2txt/Converter.java
index c0b1a4854867276c005dc73bebe2dac07fffdef9..5200153b2984a4c2400a54fca925be8353ad90d7 100644
--- a/module/src/main/java/pl/clarin/any2txt/Converter.java
+++ b/module/src/main/java/pl/clarin/any2txt/Converter.java
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ public class Converter extends Worker {
                 try {
                     DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
                     DocumentBuilder loader = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
+                    ins.setEncoding("UTF-8");
                     Document document = loader.parse(inS);
 
                     DocumentTraversal trav = (DocumentTraversal) document;