diff --git a/perl-Pod-Spell.spec b/perl-Pod-Spell.spec
index 68ecb8f..51154d1 100644
--- a/perl-Pod-Spell.spec
+++ b/perl-Pod-Spell.spec
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ complain about mystery words like "$thing" or "Foo::Bar" or "hashref").
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n Pod-Spell-%{version}
+for F in README; do
+    iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 < "$F" > "${F}.utf8"
+    touch -r "${F}" "${F}.utf8"
+    mv "${F}.utf8" "$F"
+done
 
 
 %build
@@ -65,6 +70,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %changelog
 * Thu Oct 25 2012 Petr Pisar <ppisar@redhat.com> - 1.01-15
 - Specify all dependencies
+- Convert README to UTF-8
 
 * Fri Jul 20 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.01-14
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild