diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e5af9c7..3313ccc 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ The parser interface extracts text and metadata using the /rmeta
 interface. This is one of the better ways to get the internal XHTML
 content extracted.
 
+The parser interface needs the following environment variable set on the console for printing of the extracted content.
+
+export PYTHONIOENCODING=utf8
+
 ```
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 import tika
@@ -76,6 +80,10 @@ Specify Output Format To XHTML
 ---------------------
 The parser interface is optionally able to output the content as XHTML rather than plain text.
 
+The parser interface needs the following environment variable set on the console for printing of the extracted content.
+
+export PYTHONIOENCODING=utf8
+
 ```
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 import tika