diff --git a/makeBuild.py b/makeBuild.py
index 2af6e6fd74d9..eedc6ed6026b 100755
--- a/makeBuild.py
+++ b/makeBuild.py
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 import sys
 import os
 import logging
+reload(sys)
+sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')
 
 from lxml.etree import XMLSyntaxError, XIncludeError