diff --git a/bin/metabase-profile b/bin/metabase-profile
index d816cd3..e6d19c5 100644
--- a/bin/metabase-profile
+++ b/bin/metabase-profile
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ use Metabase::User::Profile;
 use Metabase::User::Secret;
 use Pod::Usage;
 use IO::Prompt::Tiny qw(prompt);
+use Encode qw(decode_utf8);
+
+@ARGV = map { decode_utf8($_, 1) } @ARGV;
 
 my ( %profile, $help, $output, $full_name, $email_address, $password );
 my $result = GetOptions(
@@ -65,7 +68,7 @@ my $secret  = Metabase::User::Secret->new(
 print "Writing profile to '$output'\n";
 open my $fh, ">", $output;
 print {$fh}
-  JSON::MaybeXS->new(ascii => 1, pretty => 1)->encode( [ $profile->as_struct, $secret->as_struct, ] );
+  JSON::MaybeXS->new(ascii => 1, pretty => 1, utf8 => 1)->encode( [ $profile->as_struct, $secret->as_struct, ] );
 close $fh;
 chmod 0600, $output;