diff --git a/src/Data/Convert/Verbatim/verbatim.cpp b/src/Data/Convert/Verbatim/verbatim.cpp
index a94dfa103..0aef24336 100644
--- a/src/Data/Convert/Verbatim/verbatim.cpp
+++ b/src/Data/Convert/Verbatim/verbatim.cpp
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ un_special (string s) {
 static string
 encode (string s, string enc) {
   if (enc == "auto") return western_to_cork (s);
-  else if (enc == "utf-8") return utf8_to_herk (s);
+  else if (enc == "utf-8") return utf8_to_cork (s);
   else if (enc == "iso-8859-1") return tm_encode (s);
   else if (enc == "SourceCode") return sourcecode_to_cork (s);
   else return tm_encode (s);