diff --git a/contrib/unaccent/generate_unaccent_rules.py b/contrib/unaccent/generate_unaccent_rules.py
index 58b6e7d..65fe73e 100644
--- a/contrib/unaccent/generate_unaccent_rules.py
+++ b/contrib/unaccent/generate_unaccent_rules.py
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@
     def bytes(source, encoding='ascii', errors='strict'):
         return source.encode(encoding=encoding, errors=errors)
 # END: Python 2/3 compatibility - remove when Python 2 compatibility dropped
-
+else:
+	sys.stdout.reconfigure(encoding='utf-8')
 import re
 import argparse
 import sys