diff --git a/lib/github/commands/pod2html b/lib/github/commands/pod2html
index aaed6022..b3f0f84d 100755
--- a/lib/github/commands/pod2html
+++ b/lib/github/commands/pod2html
@@ -13,4 +13,5 @@ $p->strip_verbatim_indent(sub {
     (my $indent = $lines->[0]) =~ s/\S.*//;
     return $indent;
 });
+binmode STDOUT, ':encoding(UTF-8)';
 $p->parse_from_file(shift);
diff --git a/test/markups/README.utf8.pod b/test/markups/README.utf8.pod
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b2f2d186
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/markups/README.utf8.pod
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+=encoding utf8
+
+=begin html
+
+<p>Latin-1 range: «» é</p>
+
+=end html
+
+=begin html
+
+<p>Above Latin-1: ੦..੯ ٠..٩</p>
+
+=end html
diff --git a/test/markups/README.utf8.pod.html b/test/markups/README.utf8.pod.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8ea0e7d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/markups/README.utf8.pod.html
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+<p>Latin-1 range: «» é</p>
+
+<p>Above Latin-1: ੦..੯ ٠..٩</p>