diff --git a/UI/log-viewer.cpp b/UI/log-viewer.cpp
index b1e2bf535..837d6a971 100644
--- a/UI/log-viewer.cpp
+++ b/UI/log-viewer.cpp
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ void OBSLogViewer::InitLog()
 
 	if (file.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly)) {
 		QTextStream in(&file);
+		in.setCodec("UTF-8");
 
 		while (!in.atEnd()) {
 			QString line = in.readLine();