diff --git a/tests/cjk/cjk.sh b/tests/cjk/cjk.sh
index 9f815866..2781e5b3 100755
--- a/tests/cjk/cjk.sh
+++ b/tests/cjk/cjk.sh
@@ -5,8 +5,10 @@ topdir=`dirname $0`/..
 
 initvariables $0
 
-recollq まず  > $mystdout 2> $mystderr
-recollq ます  > $mystdout 2> $mystderr
+# We need an UTF-8 locale here for recollq arg transcoding
+LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+recollq 'まず'  > $mystdout 2> $mystderr
+recollq 'ます'  >> $mystdout 2> $mystderr
 
 
 diff -w ${myname}.txt $mystdout > $mydiffs 2>&1