diff --git a/src/Codec/Archive/Zip.hs b/src/Codec/Archive/Zip.hs
--- a/src/Codec/Archive/Zip.hs
+++ b/src/Codec/Archive/Zip.hs
@@ -671,7 +671,7 @@
   putWord32le 0x02014b50
   putWord16le 0  -- version made by
   putWord16le 20 -- version needed to extract (>= 2.0)
-  putWord16le 2  -- general purpose bit flag (max compression)
+  putWord16le 0x802  -- general purpose bit flag (bit 1 = max compression, bit 11 = UTF-8)
   putWord16le $ case eCompressionMethod local of
                      NoCompression -> 0
                      Deflate       -> 8
diff --git a/zip-archive.cabal b/zip-archive.cabal
--- a/zip-archive.cabal
+++ b/zip-archive.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:                zip-archive
-Version:             0.2.1
+Version:             0.2.2
 Cabal-Version:       >= 1.10
 Build-type:          Simple
 Synopsis:            Library for creating and modifying zip archives.