diff --git a/Build.PL b/Build.PL
index 53dccbbba..e77e31fba 100644
--- a/Build.PL
+++ b/Build.PL
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ my $build = Module::Build->new(
     license         => 'perl',
     requires        => {
         'Boost::Geometry::Utils'    => '0',
+        'Encode::Locale'            => '0',
         'File::Basename'            => '0',
         'File::Spec'                => '0',
         'Getopt::Long'              => '0',
diff --git a/lib/Slic3r.pm b/lib/Slic3r.pm
index 4a0b1bb37..4ca5b4383 100644
--- a/lib/Slic3r.pm
+++ b/lib/Slic3r.pm
@@ -27,7 +27,10 @@ warn "Running Slic3r under Perl >= 5.16 is not supported nor recommended\n"
 use FindBin;
 our $var = "$FindBin::Bin/var";
 
+use Encode;
+use Encode::Locale;
 use Moo 0.091009;
+
 use Slic3r::Config;
 use Slic3r::ExPolygon;
 use Slic3r::Extruder;
@@ -88,4 +91,9 @@ sub parallelize {
     }
 }
 
+sub open {
+    my ($fh, $mode, $filename) = @_;
+    return CORE::open $$fh, $mode, encode('locale_fs', $filename);
+}
+
 1;
diff --git a/lib/Slic3r/Config.pm b/lib/Slic3r/Config.pm
index a310361d5..d79fdf9c4 100644
--- a/lib/Slic3r/Config.pm
+++ b/lib/Slic3r/Config.pm
@@ -946,7 +946,7 @@ sub new_from_cli {
         if ($args{$opt_key}) {
             die "Invalid value for --${_}-gcode: file does not exist\n"
                 if !-e $args{$opt_key};
-            open my $fh, "<", $args{$opt_key}
+            Slic3r::open(\my $fh, "<", $args{$opt_key})
                 or die "Failed to open $args{$opt_key}\n";
             binmode $fh, ':utf8';
             $args{$opt_key} = do { local $/; <$fh> };
@@ -1251,7 +1251,7 @@ sub write_ini {
     my $class = shift;
     my ($file, $ini) = @_;
     
-    open my $fh, '>', $file;
+    Slic3r::open(\my $fh, '>', $file);
     binmode $fh, ':utf8';
     my $localtime = localtime;
     printf $fh "# generated by Slic3r $Slic3r::VERSION on %s\n", "$localtime";
@@ -1269,7 +1269,7 @@ sub read_ini {
     my ($file) = @_;
     
     local $/ = "\n";
-    open my $fh, '<', $file;
+    Slic3r::open(\my $fh, '<', $file);
     binmode $fh, ':utf8';
     
     my $ini = { _ => {} };
diff --git a/lib/Slic3r/Format/AMF.pm b/lib/Slic3r/Format/AMF.pm
index 0e44353cf..0b3bbc1ed 100644
--- a/lib/Slic3r/Format/AMF.pm
+++ b/lib/Slic3r/Format/AMF.pm
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ sub read_file {
     	1;
     } or die "AMF parsing requires XML::SAX\n";
     
-    open my $fh, '<', $file or die "Failed to open $file\n";
+    Slic3r::open(\my $fh, '<', $file) or die "Failed to open $file\n";
     
     my $model = Slic3r::Model->new;
     XML::SAX::ParserFactory
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ sub write_file {
     
     my %vertices_offset = ();
     
-    open my $fh, '>', $file;
+    Slic3r::open(\my $fh, '>', $file);
     binmode $fh, ':utf8';
     printf $fh qq{<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\n};
     printf $fh qq{<amf unit="millimeter">\n};
diff --git a/lib/Slic3r/Format/OBJ.pm b/lib/Slic3r/Format/OBJ.pm
index d663cfb5a..c5cc08555 100644
--- a/lib/Slic3r/Format/OBJ.pm
+++ b/lib/Slic3r/Format/OBJ.pm
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ sub read_file {
     my $self = shift;
     my ($file) = @_;
     
-    open my $fh, '<', $file or die "Failed to open $file\n";
+    Slic3r::open(\my $fh, '<', $file) or die "Failed to open $file\n";
     my $vertices = [];
     my $facets = [];
     while (my $_ = <$fh>) {
diff --git a/lib/Slic3r/Format/STL.pm b/lib/Slic3r/Format/STL.pm
index 6e9665185..5c992230e 100644
--- a/lib/Slic3r/Format/STL.pm
+++ b/lib/Slic3r/Format/STL.pm
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ sub read_file {
     my $self = shift;
     my ($file) = @_;
     
-    open my $fh, '<', $file or die "Failed to open $file\n";
+    Slic3r::open(\my $fh, '<', $file) or die "Failed to open $file\n";
     
     # let's detect whether file is ASCII or binary
     my $mode;
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ sub write_file {
     my $self = shift;
     my ($file, $model, %params) = @_;
     
-    open my $fh, '>', $file;
+    Slic3r::open(\my $fh, '>', $file);
     
     $params{binary}
         ? _write_binary($fh, $model->mesh)
diff --git a/lib/Slic3r/Print.pm b/lib/Slic3r/Print.pm
index e3f3c3adf..5540632db 100644
--- a/lib/Slic3r/Print.pm
+++ b/lib/Slic3r/Print.pm
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ sub export_svg {
     my $output_file = $self->expanded_output_filepath($params{output_file});
     $output_file =~ s/\.gcode$/.svg/i;
     
-    open my $fh, ">", $output_file or die "Failed to open $output_file for writing\n";
+    Slic3r::open(\my $fh, ">", $output_file) or die "Failed to open $output_file for writing\n";
     print "Exporting to $output_file...";
     my $print_size = $self->size;
     print $fh sprintf <<"EOF", unscale($print_size->[X]), unscale($print_size->[Y]);
@@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ sub write_gcode {
     if (ref $file eq 'IO::Scalar') {
         $fh = $file;
     } else {
-        open $fh, ">", $file
+        Slic3r::open(\$fh, ">", $file)
             or die "Failed to open $file for writing\n";
     }
     
diff --git a/lib/Slic3r/SVG.pm b/lib/Slic3r/SVG.pm
index 8621614b5..0179ea769 100644
--- a/lib/Slic3r/SVG.pm
+++ b/lib/Slic3r/SVG.pm
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ sub output_lines {
 sub write_svg {
     my ($svg, $filename) = @_;
     
-    open my $fh, '>', $filename;
+    Slic3r::open(\my $fh, '>', $filename);
     print $fh $svg->xmlify;
     close $fh;
     printf "SVG written to %s\n", $filename;