diff --git a/src/poetry/utils/env/script_strings.py b/src/poetry/utils/env/script_strings.py
index 246649867f3..9bfb03efe77 100644
--- a/src/poetry/utils/env/script_strings.py
+++ b/src/poetry/utils/env/script_strings.py
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import locale
+
 import packaging.tags
 
 
-GET_SYS_TAGS = f"""
+GET_SYS_TAGS = f"""\
+# encoding: {locale.getpreferredencoding(False)}
 import importlib.util
 import json
 import sys