diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright (c) 2009-2015 Simon Hengel <sol@typeful.net>
+Copyright (c) 2009-2017 Simon Hengel <sol@typeful.net>
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
diff --git a/doctest.cabal b/doctest.cabal
--- a/doctest.cabal
+++ b/doctest.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:             doctest
-version:          0.11.0
+version:          0.11.1
 synopsis:         Test interactive Haskell examples
 description:      The doctest program checks examples in source code comments.
                   It is modeled after doctest for Python
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 homepage:         https://github.com/sol/doctest#readme
 license:          MIT
 license-file:     LICENSE
-copyright:        (c) 2009-2015 Simon Hengel
+copyright:        (c) 2009-2017 Simon Hengel
 author:           Simon Hengel <sol@typeful.net>
 maintainer:       Simon Hengel <sol@typeful.net>
 build-type:       Simple
@@ -50,9 +50,10 @@
     , Language.Haskell.GhciWrapper
   build-depends:
       base          == 4.*
-    , base-compat   >= 0.4.2
+    , base-compat   >= 0.7.0
     , ghc           >= 7.0 && < 8.2
     , syb           >= 0.3
+    , code-page     >= 0.1
     , deepseq
     , directory
     , filepath
@@ -88,6 +89,7 @@
       base
     , ghc
     , syb
+    , code-page
     , deepseq
     , directory
     , filepath
diff --git a/src/Run.hs b/src/Run.hs
--- a/src/Run.hs
+++ b/src/Run.hs
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 import           System.Exit (exitFailure, exitSuccess)
 import           System.FilePath ((</>), takeExtension)
 import           System.IO
+import           System.IO.CodePage (withCP65001)
 
 import qualified Control.Exception as E
 import           Panic
@@ -144,5 +145,5 @@
   -- get examples from Haddock comments
   modules <- getDocTests args
 
-  Interpreter.withInterpreter args $ \repl -> do
+  Interpreter.withInterpreter args $ \repl -> withCP65001 $ do
     runModules repl modules