diff --git a/project_info.json b/project_info.json
index a25030b..5fb1013 100644
--- a/project_info.json
+++ b/project_info.json
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 {
   "id": "8e33d642-00e1-4542-9848-018cce59189d",
   "name": "Kolibri",
-  "version": "0.1.1",
-  "build_number": "28",
+  "version": "0.1.2",
+  "build_number": "29",
   "identifier": "org.learningequality.Kolibri",
   "requirements": {"android": ["python2","pyjnius","genericndkbuild", "sqlite3", "cryptography", "pyopenssl", "openssl", "six"]},
   "whitelist_file": {"android": "whitelist.txt"},
diff --git a/src/main.py b/src/main.py
index 6b1be8a..956f434 100644
--- a/src/main.py
+++ b/src/main.py
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ def get_home_folder():
 os.makedirs(log_dir, exist_ok=True)
 log_filename = os.path.join(log_dir, log_basename)
 root_logger = logging.getLogger()
-file_handler = KolibriTimedRotatingFileHandler(filename=log_filename, when='midnight', backupCount=30)
+file_handler = KolibriTimedRotatingFileHandler(filename=log_filename, encoding='utf-8', when='midnight', backupCount=30)
 root_logger.addHandler(file_handler)
 
 # Since the log files can contain multiple runs, make the first printout very visible to quickly show