diff --git a/application/config/config.php b/application/config/config.php
index d34579b..c4d554c 100644
--- a/application/config/config.php
+++ b/application/config/config.php
@@ -9,5 +9,6 @@
 $config['db_name'] = ''; // Database name
 $config['db_username'] = ''; // Database username
 $config['db_password'] = ''; // Database password
+$config['db_encoding'] = 'utf8'; //Char-encoding of database
 
-?>
\ No newline at end of file
+?>