diff --git a/misc/cronjobs/overdue_notices.pl b/misc/cronjobs/overdue_notices.pl
index 8440f3a3ba..9147171976 100755
--- a/misc/cronjobs/overdue_notices.pl
+++ b/misc/cronjobs/overdue_notices.pl
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ elsif ( defined $text_filename ) {
     $fh = *STDOUT;
   } else {
     my $today = DateTime->now(time_zone => C4::Context->tz );
-    open $fh, ">",File::Spec->catdir ($text_filename,"notices-".$today->ymd().".txt");
+    open $fh, ">:encoding(UTF-8)",File::Spec->catdir ($text_filename,"notices-".$today->ymd().".txt");
   }
 }