diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 880aed7..734b6c9 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -30,3 +30,4 @@ Current release 0.7
         * moved user guide into 'doc/' with Makefile
         * changed name to "text-bags" (was DCA-bags)
         * new command linkTokens to create preferred capitalisation of tokens
+ 	* corrected 'utf8:all" to remove wide char problems
diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
index 02a8fd2..04c3e6a 100644
--- a/Makefile.PL
+++ b/Makefile.PL
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ WriteMakefile(
     AUTHOR       => 'Wray Buntine',
     ABSTRACT     => 'Simple bag/list generation and for text and link preprocessing',
     PREREQ_PM    => {HTML::Entities => 0, Encode => 0, Getopt::Long => 0,
-		     Pod::Usage => 0, IO::Handle => 0, POSIX => 0,
+		     Pod::Usage => 0, IO::Handle => 0, POSIX => 0, utf8::all => 0,
                      URI => 0, Digest::MD5 => 0, Lingua::Stem => 0,
 		     Lingua::EN::Sentence => 0, XML::Parser => 0,
 		     FileHandle => 0, File::Tail => 0, IO::Pipe => 0,