diff --git a/bin/pt-table-checksum b/bin/pt-table-checksum
index 2162e508..11787d2e 100755
--- a/bin/pt-table-checksum
+++ b/bin/pt-table-checksum
@@ -12533,7 +12533,7 @@ structure (MAGIC_create_replicate):
      ts             TIMESTAMP    NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
      PRIMARY KEY (db, tbl, chunk),
      INDEX ts_db_tbl (ts, db, tbl)
-  ) ENGINE=InnoDB;
+  ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
 
 Note: lower_boundary and upper_boundary data type can be BLOB. See L<"--binary-index">.