diff --git a/processing/extractBH.R b/processing/extractBH.R
index 9dfb800828f586bcda1386cba3e8f37258015218..93e21efc6e7dece52a90b340a93abb02dbd57145 100644
--- a/processing/extractBH.R
+++ b/processing/extractBH.R
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ extractBH_meta = function (computer_data_path, filedir, filename, verbose=TRUE)
     if (file.exists(file_path) & substr(file_path, nchar(file_path), nchar(file_path)) != '/') {
         
         # Extract all the header
-        metatxt = c(readLines(file_path, n=41, encoding="latin1"))
+        metatxt = c(readLines(file_path, n=41, encoding="UTF-8"))
         
         # Create a tibble with all the metadata needed
         df_meta =