diff --git a/db.py b/db.py
index 335d8ae..13777a6 100644
--- a/db.py
+++ b/db.py
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ async def init_table_schema():
     utils.logger.info("[init_table_schema] begin init mysql table schema ...")
     await init_mediacrawler_db()
     async_db_obj: AsyncMysqlDB = media_crawler_db_var.get()
-    async with aiofiles.open("schema/tables.sql", mode="r") as f:
+    async with aiofiles.open("schema/tables.sql", mode="r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
         schema_sql = await f.read()
         await async_db_obj.execute(schema_sql)
         utils.logger.info("[init_table_schema] mediacrawler table schema init successful")