diff --git a/processing/extractNV.R b/processing/extractNV.R
index f478ce42dd130f8fd9b1cdc1af44a30f2443d90e..8bf6c2444959917b9d01686f03617a3fdeedd6f0 100644
--- a/processing/extractNV.R
+++ b/processing/extractNV.R
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ extractNVlist_meta = function (computer_data_path, filedir, listdir, listname, v
 
         # Extract the data as a data frame
         df_meta = read.table(list_path,
-                             header=TRUE) 
+                             header=TRUE,
+                             encoding='UTF-8'
+                             ) 
 
         # Create a filelist to store all the filename
         codelist = c()