diff --git a/lncrawl/core/scraper.py b/lncrawl/core/scraper.py
index 689a2fae9..fe6b25539 100644
--- a/lncrawl/core/scraper.py
+++ b/lncrawl/core/scraper.py
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ def __process_request(self, method: str, url, **kwargs):
         headers.setdefault("Referer", self.last_soup_url or self.home_url)
         headers.setdefault("User-Agent", self.user_agent)
         kwargs["headers"] = {
-            str(k).encode("ascii"): str(v).encode("ascii")
+            str(k).encode("utf-8"): str(v).encode("utf-8")
             for k, v in headers.items()
             if v
         }