diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index c5bc7b8..2fcdfff 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -274,8 +274,8 @@ if(MSVC)
     target_compile_options(spdlog PRIVATE "/Zc:__cplusplus")
     target_compile_options(spdlog_header_only INTERFACE "/Zc:__cplusplus")
     if(SPDLOG_MSVC_UTF8)
-	    target_compile_options(spdlog PUBLIC "/utf-8")
-	    target_compile_options(spdlog_header_only INTERFACE "/utf-8")    
+	    target_compile_options(spdlog PUBLIC $<$<AND:$<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:CXX>,$<CXX_COMPILER_ID:MSVC>>:/utf-8>)
+	    target_compile_options(spdlog_header_only INTERFACE $<$<AND:$<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:CXX>,$<CXX_COMPILER_ID:MSVC>>:/utf-8>)    
      endif()
 endif()