diff --git a/src/frontend/qt_sdl/Config.cpp b/src/frontend/qt_sdl/Config.cpp
index 98749175..998a03ec 100644
--- a/src/frontend/qt_sdl/Config.cpp
+++ b/src/frontend/qt_sdl/Config.cpp
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include <inttypes.h>
 #include <iostream>
 #include <fstream>
+#include <filesystem>
 #include <regex>
 #include "toml/toml.hpp"
 
@@ -741,7 +742,7 @@ bool Load()
 
     try
     {
-        RootTable = toml::parse(cfgpath);
+        RootTable = toml::parse(std::filesystem::u8path(cfgpath));
     }
     catch (toml::syntax_error& err)
     {
@@ -758,7 +759,7 @@ void Save()
         return;
 
     std::ofstream file;
-    file.open(cfgpath, std::ofstream::out | std::ofstream::trunc);
+    file.open(std::filesystem::u8path(cfgpath), std::ofstream::out | std::ofstream::trunc);
     file << RootTable;
     file.close();
 }