diff --git a/config/tomcat/etc/tomcat/tomcat.conf b/config/tomcat/etc/tomcat/tomcat.conf
index c4090b26..052e5eef 100644
--- a/config/tomcat/etc/tomcat/tomcat.conf
+++ b/config/tomcat/etc/tomcat/tomcat.conf
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ CATALINA_TMPDIR="/var/cache/tomcat/temp"
 
 # Set default javax.sql.DataSource factory to apache commons one. See rhbz#1214381
 #JAVA_OPTS="-Djavax.sql.DataSource.Factory=org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory"
-JAVA_OPTS="-Djavax.sql.DataSource.Factory=org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp2.BasicDataSourceFactory"
+JAVA_OPTS="-Djavax.sql.DataSource.Factory=org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp2.BasicDataSourceFactory -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8"
 
 # You can change your tomcat locale here
 #LANG="en_US"