diff --git a/oscar/SleepLib/journal.cpp b/oscar/SleepLib/journal.cpp
index 56ddff0d..6e515497 100644
--- a/oscar/SleepLib/journal.cpp
+++ b/oscar/SleepLib/journal.cpp
@@ -214,6 +214,7 @@ void BackupJournal(QString filename)
     stream.setAutoFormattingIndent(2);
 
     stream.writeStartDocument();
+//    stream.writeProcessingInstruction("xml", "version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"");
     stream.writeStartElement("OSCAR");
     stream.writeStartElement("Journal");
     stream.writeAttribute("username", p_profile->user->userName());
@@ -301,6 +302,8 @@ void BackupJournal(QString filename)
     }
 
     QTextStream ts(&file);
+    ts.setCodec("UTF-8");
+    ts.setGenerateByteOrderMark(true);
     ts << outBuf;
     file.close();
 }