diff --git a/backup.sh b/backup.sh
index f283cb1ba58ebaa8a99c6a90274862d8b4684a59..5e7fd4915a8da94303fc42e5ded09136032c832d 100755
--- a/backup.sh
+++ b/backup.sh
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ echo $DIR
 cd $DIR
 out="backups/mysqldump_$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M).sql.gz"
 . .env
-docker-compose exec -T db mysqldump --all-databases -u root -p$MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD | gzip > $out
+docker-compose exec -T db mysqldump --all-databases -u root -p$MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD  --default-character-set=utf8 | gzip > $out
 ls -lh $out
 echo "Done"