diff --git a/util/locale_database/cldr2qlocalexml.py b/util/locale_database/cldr2qlocalexml.py
index 072ea9e4ede..de9fe571150 100755
--- a/util/locale_database/cldr2qlocalexml.py
+++ b/util/locale_database/cldr2qlocalexml.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # coding=utf8
 #############################################################################
 ##
-## Copyright (C) 2018 The Qt Company Ltd.
+## Copyright (C) 2020 The Qt Company Ltd.
 ## Contact: https://www.qt.io/licensing/
 ##
 ## This file is part of the test suite of the Qt Toolkit.
@@ -582,6 +582,10 @@ for line in ldml:
     if 'version cldrVersion CDATA #FIXED' in line:
         cldr_version = line.split('"')[1]
 
+if sys.stdout.encoding != 'UTF-8' or (sys.stdout.encoding is None and sys.getdefaultencoding() != 'UTF-8'):
+    reload(sys) # Weirdly, this gets a richer sys module than the plain import got us !
+    sys.setdefaultencoding('UTF-8')
+
 print "<localeDatabase>"
 print "    <version>" + cldr_version + "</version>"
 print "    <languageList>"