diff --git a/xdg-user-dirs/user-dirs.conf b/xdg-user-dirs/user-dirs.conf

index 86012d0..62f1072 100644

--- a/xdg-user-dirs/user-dirs.conf

+++ b/xdg-user-dirs/user-dirs.conf

@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ enabled=True

 # This sets the filename encoding to use. You can specify an explicit

 # encoding, or "locale" which means the encoding of the users locale

 # will be used

-filename_encoding=UTF-8

+filename_encoding=locale