diff --git a/packages/emacs/build.sh b/packages/emacs/build.sh
index ca9bf1e66..25707469d 100644
--- a/packages/emacs/build.sh
+++ b/packages/emacs/build.sh
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Extensible, customizable text editor-and more"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-3.0"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=27.2
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=6
+TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=7
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=b4a7cc4e78e63f378624e0919215b910af5bb2a0afc819fad298272e9f40c1b9
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="ncurses, gnutls, libxml2, libjansson"
diff --git a/packages/emacs/site-start.el b/packages/emacs/site-start.el
index f93baebab..54df28965 100644
--- a/packages/emacs/site-start.el
+++ b/packages/emacs/site-start.el
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-; Enable terminal mouse events:
+;; Enable terminal mouse events:
 (xterm-mouse-mode 1)
 (global-set-key [mouse-4] 'scroll-down-line)
 (global-set-key [mouse-5] 'scroll-up-line)
+
+;; Assume UTF-8 keyboard input for emacsclient:
+(add-hook 'server-visit-hook
+          '(lambda ()
+             (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)))