diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index acc744c5..3710a13e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
 jc changelog
 
+20220425 v1.18.8
+- Fix quotation marks around asciified output with UnicodeEncodeError
+
 20220425 v1.18.7
 - Add git log command parser
 - Add update-alternatives --query parser
 - Add update-alternatives --get-selections parser
 - Fix key/value and ini parsers to allow duplicate keys
 - Fix yaml file parser for files including timestamp objects
-- Fix UnicodeDecodeError on some systems where LANG=C is set and unicode
+- Fix UnicodeEncodeError on some systems where LANG=C is set and unicode
   characters are in the output
 - Update xrandr parser: add a 'rotation' field
 - Fix failing tests by moving template files
diff --git a/jc/lib.py b/jc/lib.py
index 252a1171..7184ffce 100644
--- a/jc/lib.py
+++ b/jc/lib.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import importlib
 from typing import Dict, List, Iterable, Union, Iterator
 from jc import appdirs
 
-__version__ = '1.18.7'
+__version__ = '1.18.8'
 
 parsers = [
     'acpi',
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2bf6de38..3ab23866 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ with open('README.md', 'r') as f:
 
 setuptools.setup(
     name='jc',
-    version='1.18.7',
+    version='1.18.8',
     author='Kelly Brazil',
     author_email='kellyjonbrazil@gmail.com',
     description='Converts the output of popular command-line tools and file-types to JSON.',