diff --git a/src/intel/genxml/gen_pack_header.py b/src/intel/genxml/gen_pack_header.py
index 47870b30cea..2920ec97c23 100644
--- a/src/intel/genxml/gen_pack_header.py
+++ b/src/intel/genxml/gen_pack_header.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
+#encoding=utf-8
 
 import xml.parsers.expat
 import re