diff --git a/syntax/tagbar.vim b/syntax/tagbar.vim
index 7b0f0b5..e51fa72 100644
--- a/syntax/tagbar.vim
+++ b/syntax/tagbar.vim
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
 " Website:     http://majutsushi.github.com/tagbar/
 " Version:     2.1
 
+if has('multi_byte')
+    scriptencoding utf-8
+endif
+
 if exists("b:current_syntax")
   finish
 endif