diff --git a/ports/openssl/CONTROL b/ports/openssl/CONTROL
index 897e93cc7..dcdda9cc6 100644
--- a/ports/openssl/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/openssl/CONTROL
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 Source: openssl
-Version: 1.0.2n
+Version: 1.0.2n-1
 Description: OpenSSL is an open source project that provides a robust, commercial-grade, and full-featured toolkit for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols. It is also a general-purpose cryptography library.
diff --git a/ports/openssl/portfile.cmake b/ports/openssl/portfile.cmake
index b6c72fb4d..349144e91 100644
--- a/ports/openssl/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/openssl/portfile.cmake
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ set(CONFIGURE_COMMAND ${PERL} Configure
     enable-static-engine
     enable-capieng
     no-ssl2
+    -utf-8
 )
 
 if(VCPKG_TARGET_ARCHITECTURE STREQUAL "x86")