diff --git a/htmgem.php b/htmgem.php
index 8353cb4..d7e3e88 100644
--- a/htmgem.php
+++ b/htmgem.php
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 <?php
 
+mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");
+mb_regex_encoding("UTF-8");
+
 if (isset($_REQUEST["url"]))
     $url = $_REQUEST["url"];
 elseif (isset($_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]))