diff --git a/gnu-system.am b/gnu-system.am
index 56dc0849f1..4acbb51aad 100644
--- a/gnu-system.am
+++ b/gnu-system.am
@@ -487,6 +487,7 @@ dist_patch_DATA =						\
   gnu/packages/patches/guile-arm-fixes.patch			\
   gnu/packages/patches/guile-default-utf8.patch			\
   gnu/packages/patches/guile-linux-syscalls.patch		\
+  gnu/packages/patches/guile-present-coding.patch		\
   gnu/packages/patches/guile-relocatable.patch			\
   gnu/packages/patches/guile-rsvg-pkgconfig.patch		\
   gnu/packages/patches/gtkglext-disable-disable-deprecated.patch \
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/guile-present-coding.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/guile-present-coding.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0655726158
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/guile-present-coding.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+The tests/org-mode.scm tests expects 'jpl-outline-es' to be read as UTF-8.
+
+--- guile-present-0.3.0/tests/org-mode.scm	2014-09-23 22:29:51.426705753 +0200
++++ guile-present-0.3.0/tests/org-mode.scm	2014-09-23 22:30:09.634705548 +0200
+@@ -194,9 +194,10 @@
+                "(Just another hacker)"
+                "wingo@fluendo.com")
+             (p "Julien Moutte, CEO" "julien@fluendo.com")))
++   (with-fluids ((%default-port-encoding "UTF-8"))
+    (call-with-input-file
+        (in-vicinity *top-srcdir* "tests/jpl-outline-es")
+-     org->presentation)))
++       org->presentation))))
+ 
+ (setlocale LC_ALL "")
+ (exit-with-summary (run-all-defined-test-cases))