diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 02f392177..d16cac7e2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 - [Netkan] Don't raise inflation errors for single-hosted prereleases of multi-hosted mods (#4273 by: HebaruSan)
 - [Netkan] Stop trying to get remote version files from the forum (#4274 by: HebaruSan)
 - [Build] ci: Bumping Signing request tag (#4280 by: techman83; reviewed: HebaruSan)
+- [Netkan] Set unicode-aware locale in containers (#4289 by: HebaruSan)
 
 ## v1.35.2 (Penrose)
 
diff --git a/Dockerfile.metadata b/Dockerfile.metadata
index 91753188e..16d5fc0d0 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.metadata
+++ b/Dockerfile.metadata
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ FROM ubuntu:22.04 AS base
 # Don't prompt for time zone
 ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
 
+# Properly handle Unicode
+ENV LANG C.utf-8
+
 # Put user-installed Python code in path
 ENV PATH "$PATH:/root/.local/bin"
 
diff --git a/Dockerfile.netkan b/Dockerfile.netkan
index 7f38a1fc8..5b9248054 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.netkan
+++ b/Dockerfile.netkan
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ FROM ubuntu:22.04
 # Don't prompt for time zone
 ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
 
+# Properly handle Unicode
+ENV LANG C.utf-8
+
 # Set up Mono's APT repo
 RUN apt-get update \
     && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends ca-certificates gnupg \