diff --git a/bin/doom b/bin/doom
index f9d1841e6..deafdf662 100755
--- a/bin/doom
+++ b/bin/doom
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env sh
 :; # -*- mode: emacs-lisp; lexical-binding: t -*-
+:; export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
 :; case "$EMACS" in *term*) EMACS=emacs ;; *) EMACS="${EMACS:-emacs}" ;; esac
 :; emacs="$EMACS ${DEBUG:+--debug-init} -q --no-site-file --batch"
 :; tmpdir=`$emacs --eval '(princ (temporary-file-directory))' 2>/dev/null`
diff --git a/bin/doomscript b/bin/doomscript
index c5f487335..fdb01edc3 100755
--- a/bin/doomscript
+++ b/bin/doomscript
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env sh
+# -*- coding: utf-8-unix -*-
 # This is a shebang interpreter for launching Emacs Lisp scripts with Doom's CLI
 # framework preloaded, plus any environment variables it needs. Use it like so:
 #
@@ -19,6 +20,9 @@ if [ "$#" -eq 0 ]; then
     exit 1
 fi
 
+# Prevent garbled non-English output from child processes
+export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
+
 case "$EMACS" in
     *term*) EMACS=emacs ;;   # in {ansi-,v}term
     *) EMACS="${EMACS:-emacs}" ;;