diff --git a/convert-hf-to-gguf-update.py b/convert-hf-to-gguf-update.py
index 84b72348dc579..6dae1a59465e0 100755
--- a/convert-hf-to-gguf-update.py
+++ b/convert-hf-to-gguf-update.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
 # This script downloads the tokenizer models of the specified models from Huggingface and
 # generates the get_vocab_base_pre() function for convert-hf-to-gguf.py
diff --git a/convert-hf-to-gguf.py b/convert-hf-to-gguf.py
index ad071b97404f7..afb9704c8e218 100755
--- a/convert-hf-to-gguf.py
+++ b/convert-hf-to-gguf.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
 from __future__ import annotations