diff --git a/src/Wiki4e/Commands/Articles.hs b/src/Wiki4e/Commands/Articles.hs
--- a/src/Wiki4e/Commands/Articles.hs
+++ b/src/Wiki4e/Commands/Articles.hs
@@ -22,8 +22,10 @@
 import Wiki4e.Commands.Fetching
 
 wiki4e_sanitizeArticle :: [String] -> FilePath -> FilePath -> IO ()
-wiki4e_sanitizeArticle alnk inf ouf = withBinaryFile inf ReadMode (\hi -> do
-          withBinaryFile ouf WriteMode (\ho -> do 
+wiki4e_sanitizeArticle alnk inf ouf = withFile inf ReadMode (\hi -> do
+          hSetEncoding hi utf8
+          withFile ouf WriteMode (\ho -> do 
+                  hSetEncoding ho utf8
                   c <- hGetContents hi
                   let a = sanitizeArticle alnk $ WikiArticleHTML "" c
                   hPutStr ho $ waContent a
diff --git a/src/Wiki4e/Commands/Common.hs b/src/Wiki4e/Commands/Common.hs
--- a/src/Wiki4e/Commands/Common.hs
+++ b/src/Wiki4e/Commands/Common.hs
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 readFileUTF8 :: FilePath -> IO String
 readFileUTF8 x = do
           h <- openBinaryFile x ReadMode
+          hSetEncoding h utf8
           c <- hGetContents h
           forceList c `seq` hClose h
           return c
diff --git a/wikipedia4epub.cabal b/wikipedia4epub.cabal
--- a/wikipedia4epub.cabal
+++ b/wikipedia4epub.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:            wikipedia4epub
-Version:         0.0.9
+Version:         0.0.10
 License:         BSD3
 License-File:    LICENSE
 Homepage:        http://rampa.sk/static/wikipedia4epub.html