diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e4fafe6..b6ca221 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -38,10 +38,12 @@ you may define AWS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY as environmental variables.
     perl render.pl -i file [-o directory] [-c directory] [-s speeds] [-p pitch] [-pr]
                    [-m max processes] [-z 1] [-rr 1] [--test] [-l word limit]
                    [--norepeat] [--nospoken] [--nocourtesytone] [-e NEURAL | STANDARD] 
-                   [--sm] [--ss] [--sv] [-x] [--lang ENGLISH | SWEDISH]
+                   [--sm] [--ss] [--sv] [-x] [--lang ENGLISH | SWEDISH | ROMANIAN]
 
 Uses AWS Polly and requires valid credentials in the aws.properties file.<br/><br/>
 
+For `-l ROMANIAN`, remember to use `-e STANDARD`. Neural languages do not sound as rough as standard ones.
+
 #### OPTIONS:
 
 ##### Required:
diff --git a/render.pl b/render.pl
index 2b65df7..8a91f68 100755
--- a/render.pl
+++ b/render.pl
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 use Getopt::Long;
 use Digest::SHA qw(sha256_hex sha256_base64);
 use POSIX;
+use Encode qw(encode_utf8);
 
 my @speeds;
 sub print_usage;
@@ -83,6 +84,10 @@
   $lower_lang_chars_regex = "a-züäöß";
   $upper_lang_chars_regex = "A-ZÜÄÖß";
 }
+if($lang eq "ROMANIAN") {
+  $lower_lang_chars_regex = "a-zâăîșț";
+  $upper_lang_chars_regex = "A-ZÂĂÎȘȚ";
+}
 
 binmode(STDOUT, ":encoding(UTF-8)");
 
@@ -408,7 +413,8 @@ sub split_on_spoken_directive {
         $cached_filename = "${lang}-standard-";
       }
 
-      $cached_filename .= $text_to_speech_engine . "-" . sha256_hex($sentence) . ".mp3";
+      use Encode qw(encode_utf8);
+      $cached_filename .= $text_to_speech_engine . "-" . sha256_hex(encode_utf8($sentence)) . ".mp3";
       $cached_filename = $cache_directory . $cached_filename;
 
       return $cached_filename;
@@ -581,7 +587,8 @@ sub split_on_spoken_directive {
             sub get_cached_filename {
               my ($ebookCmdBase, $morse_text) = @_;
 
-              my $cached_file_hash = sha256_base64($ebookCmdBase . $morse_text);
+	      use Encode qw(encode_utf8);
+	      my $cached_file_hash = sha256_base64(encode_utf8($ebookCmdBase . $morse_text));
               $cached_file_hash =~ s/\///g;
               my $cached_file = $cached_file_hash . ".mp3";
 
diff --git a/text2speech.py b/text2speech.py
index 85f082a..44eb6c0 100755
--- a/text2speech.py
+++ b/text2speech.py
@@ -117,6 +117,9 @@ def render(cache_filename, voice_id, text_type, text):
     if language == "GERMAN":
         voice_id = "Vicki"
 
+    if language == "ROMANIAN":
+        voice_id = "Carmen"
+
     print("Using Voice: " + voice_id)
     cache_filename = cache_directory + language + "-standard-" + base_filename
     render(cache_filename, voice_id=voice_id, text_type=None, text=sentence)