diff --git a/misc/vim/ftdetect/gofiletype.vim b/misc/vim/ftdetect/gofiletype.vim
index 8843121603d..e50c29270c0 100644
--- a/misc/vim/ftdetect/gofiletype.vim
+++ b/misc/vim/ftdetect/gofiletype.vim
@@ -1 +1 @@
-au BufRead,BufNewFile *.go set filetype=go
+au BufRead,BufNewFile *.go set fileencoding=utf-8 filetype=go