diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d2e6ce3..b91124c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 This document contains the Spec2nii release history in reverse chronological order.
 
+0.7.1 (WIP)
+---------------------------------
+- Fixed issue with RDA files having latin1 encoding. Thanks to gaunab on github. Fixes Issue #96.
+
 0.7.0 (Saturday 5th August 2023)
 --------------------------------
 - Fixed a bug in Philips Classic DICOM orientations (supplementing the fixes to Enhanced DICOM in `0.6.11`)
diff --git a/spec2nii/Siemens/rda.py b/spec2nii/Siemens/rda.py
index a3cc25e..294948f 100644
--- a/spec2nii/Siemens/rda.py
+++ b/spec2nii/Siemens/rda.py
@@ -44,18 +44,33 @@ def convert_rda(rda_path, fname_out, verbose):
 
     with open(rda_path, 'rb') as fp:
         for line in fp:
-            if hdr_st.search(line.decode()):
-                pass
-                # print('header found')
-            elif hdr_end.search(line.decode()):
-                # print('header end')
-                break
-            else:
-                match = hdr_val.search(line.decode())
-                if len(match.groups()) < 2:
-                    hdr[match[1]] = None
+            try:
+                if hdr_st.search(line.decode()):
+                    pass
+                    # print('header found')
+                elif hdr_end.search(line.decode()):
+                    # print('header end')
+                    break
+                else:
+                    match = hdr_val.search(line.decode())
+                    if len(match.groups()) < 2:
+                        hdr[match[1]] = None
+                    else:
+                        hdr[match[1]] = match[2]
+            except UnicodeDecodeError:
+                print('Trying latin-1 encoding.')
+                if hdr_st.search(line.decode('latin-1')):
+                    pass
+                    # print('header found')
+                elif hdr_end.search(line.decode('latin-1')):
+                    # print('header end')
+                    break
                 else:
-                    hdr[match[1]] = match[2]
+                    match = hdr_val.search(line.decode('latin-1'))
+                    if len(match.groups()) < 2:
+                        hdr[match[1]] = None
+                    else:
+                        hdr[match[1]] = match[2]
         if verbose:
             print(hdr)