diff --git a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiAbout.cpp b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiAbout.cpp
index ce1427adfa..4514fc7fb4 100644
--- a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiAbout.cpp
+++ b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiAbout.cpp
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ static QString credits()
 	} else {
 		file.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly);
 		QTextStream ts(&file);
+		ts.setCodec("UTF-8");
 		QString line;
 		do {
 			line = ts.readLine();