diff --git a/bootstrap/autoload.php b/bootstrap/autoload.php
index 626612a2..ef587e27 100644
--- a/bootstrap/autoload.php
+++ b/bootstrap/autoload.php
@@ -32,6 +32,19 @@
 	require $compiled;
 }
 
+/*
+|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+| Setup Patchwork UTF-8 Handling
+|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+|
+| The Patchwork library provides solid handling of UTF-8 strings as well
+| as provides replacements for all mb_* and iconv type functions that
+| are not available by default in PHP. We'll setup this stuff here.
+|
+*/
+
+Patchwork\Utf8\Bootup::initAll();
+
 /*
 |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | Register The Laravel Auto Loader