diff --git a/root/etc/s6-overlay/s6-rc.d/init-changedetection-config/run b/root/etc/s6-overlay/s6-rc.d/init-changedetection-config/run
index 321b346..2d35178 100755
--- a/root/etc/s6-overlay/s6-rc.d/init-changedetection-config/run
+++ b/root/etc/s6-overlay/s6-rc.d/init-changedetection-config/run
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/with-contenv bash
 # shellcheck shell=bash
 
+# Force UTF-8 encoding for browser steps to prevent exception
+sed -i "s|xpath_element_js = importlib.resources.files(\"changedetectionio.content_fetchers.res\").joinpath('xpath_element_scraper.js').read_text()|xpath_element_js = importlib.resources.files(\"changedetectionio.content_fetchers.res\").joinpath('xpath_element_scraper.js').read_text(encoding='utf-8')|" /app/changedetection/changedetectionio/blueprint/browser_steps/browser_steps.py
+
 lsiown -R abc:abc \
     /config \