diff --git a/config/init.vim b/config/init.vim
index 92c25ffdf..b6381985d 100644
--- a/config/init.vim
+++ b/config/init.vim
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ if WINDOWS()
         " fallback into cp1252 instead of eg. iso-8859-15.
         " Newer Windows files might contain utf-8 or utf-16 LE so we might
         " want to try them first.
-        set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,utf-16le,cp1252,iso-8859-15
+        set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,gbk,utf-16le,cp1252,iso-8859-15
     endif
 
 else