diff --git a/crawler.py b/crawler.py
index 2992760..4362f81 100644
--- a/crawler.py
+++ b/crawler.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
         urllib.request.urlretrieve(base_url + href, xlsFilename)
         workbook = xlrd.open_workbook(xlsFilename)
         worksheet = workbook.sheet_by_index(0)
-        csvFile = open(csvFilename, 'w', newline='')
+        csvFile = open(csvFilename, 'w', newline='', encoding='utf-8')
         writer = csv.writer(csvFile, quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL)
 
         for rownum in range(worksheet.nrows):