diff --git a/api/funkwhale_api/common/middleware.py b/api/funkwhale_api/common/middleware.py
index f7d2acda4..60db2c5c5 100644
--- a/api/funkwhale_api/common/middleware.py
+++ b/api/funkwhale_api/common/middleware.py
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ def get_spa_file(spa_url, name):
 
     response = session.get_session().get(utils.join_url(spa_url, name),)
     response.raise_for_status()
+    response.encoding = "utf-8"
     content = response.text
     caches["local"].set(cache_key, content, settings.FUNKWHALE_SPA_HTML_CACHE_DURATION)
     return content
diff --git a/changes/changelog.d/index-html-encoding.bugfix b/changes/changelog.d/index-html-encoding.bugfix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6f63d232f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/changelog.d/index-html-encoding.bugfix
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Ensure index.html files get loaded with UTF-8 encoding
\ No newline at end of file