diff --git a/standards/views.py b/standards/views.py
index 919a3b3..29fe816 100644
--- a/standards/views.py
+++ b/standards/views.py
@@ -852,7 +852,7 @@ from xhtml2pdf import pisa
 # Utility function
 def convert_html_to_pdf(source_html, output_filename):
     result = BytesIO()
-    pdf = pisa.pisaDocument(BytesIO(source_html.encode("ISO-8859-1")), result)
+    pdf = pisa.pisaDocument(BytesIO(source_html.encode("UTF-8")), result)
     if not pdf.err:
         return HttpResponse(result.getvalue(), content_type='application/pdf')
     return None