diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 4d25624..b79fcdf 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Other contributors include:
 	Gildas Bazin <gbazin@netcourrier.com> - mingw32 port
 	Billy Biggs <vektor@div8.net> - most of liba52.txt
 	Eduard Hasenleithner <eduardh@aon.at> - gcc 3.0 fixes
-	H�kan Hjort <d95hjort@dtek.chalmers.se> - Solaris output, mlib code
+	Håkan Hjort <d95hjort@dtek.chalmers.se> - Solaris output, mlib code
 	Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net> - fixes
 	Chris Hodges <hodges@stradis.com> - made the library reentrant
 	Michael Holzt <kju@flummi.de> - OSS output.c and misc errata
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 73f2cf7..47cb771 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -9640,7 +9640,7 @@ _ACEOF
 
 
 
-LIBA52_CFLAGS="$LIBA52_CFLAGS -prefer-non-pic"
+LIBA52_CFLAGS="$LIBA52_CFLAGS -prefer-pic"
 
 # Check whether --enable-double or --disable-double was given.
 if test "${enable_double+set}" = set; then
diff --git a/liba52/configure.incl b/liba52/configure.incl
index 4dbbcea..5eb69ee 100644
--- a/liba52/configure.incl
+++ b/liba52/configure.incl
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ AC_SUBST([LIBA52_CFLAGS])
 AC_SUBST([LIBA52_LIBS])
 
 dnl avoid -fPIC when possible
-LIBA52_CFLAGS="$LIBA52_CFLAGS -prefer-non-pic"
+LIBA52_CFLAGS="$LIBA52_CFLAGS -prefer-pic"
 
 AC_ARG_ENABLE([double],
     [  --enable-double         use double-precision samples])