diff --git a/build/query-entities.pl b/build/query-entities.pl
index 1c31b422..c5198cd4 100755
--- a/build/query-entities.pl
+++ b/build/query-entities.pl
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 use Getopt::Long;
 use XML::Twig;
 $| = 1;
+binmode(STDOUT, ":encoding(UTF-8)");
 
 my $DEBUG;
 $DEBUG = 0;