diff --git a/init.el b/init.el
index 36183bc..d8d798e 100644
--- a/init.el
+++ b/init.el
@@ -72,7 +72,6 @@
 ;; scroll step stuff
 
 ;; UTF-8 supremacy (Snippet originally from https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs/blob/master/early-init.el, but it's not in there anymore)
-(set-language-environment "UTF-8")
 
 ;; Toggle Japanese with `qq'
 ;; Sample text: 進撃 の 巨人
diff --git a/lisp/mitch-packages.el b/lisp/mitch-packages.el
index 6c7cbff..71ff0e9 100644
--- a/lisp/mitch-packages.el
+++ b/lisp/mitch-packages.el
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
   (scroll-down-aggressively 0.01)
   :init
   (global-visual-line-mode t)
+  (set-language-environment "UTF-8")
   )
 
 ;; diminish