diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index a816759..44b4de2 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2.7 (to come)
 
+Breaking changes:
+
+o -utf8 is now the default. Set -stripped to get old behaviour.
+
 New features:
 
 o Split files to max size with -split-max
diff --git a/cpdfcommand.ml b/cpdfcommand.ml
index 957619b..ddb5abe 100644
--- a/cpdfcommand.ml
+++ b/cpdfcommand.ml
@@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ let args =
    retain_numbering = false;
    remove_duplicate_fonts = false;
    remove_duplicate_streams = false;
-   encoding = Cpdfmetadata.Stripped;
+   encoding = Cpdfmetadata.UTF;
    scale = 1.;
    copyfontpage = 1;
    copyfontname = None;
@@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ let reset_arguments () =
   args.retain_numbering <- false;
   args.remove_duplicate_fonts <- false;
   args.remove_duplicate_streams <- false;
-  args.encoding <- Cpdfmetadata.Stripped;
+  args.encoding <- Cpdfmetadata.UTF;
   args.scale <- 1.;
   args.copyfontpage <- 1;
   args.copyfontname <- None;