diff --git a/tools/stats.php b/tools/stats.php
index cec8d2ab..00214842 100755
--- a/tools/stats.php
+++ b/tools/stats.php
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/php
 <?php
+mb_internal_encoding('utf-8');
 require dirname(__FILE__) . '/inc/cli.php';
                 
 $variants = array(array("hour", 3600), array("day", 3600*24), array("3 days", 3600*24*3),
@@ -15,9 +16,22 @@ print(str_repeat('=', 13+11*count($variants)));
 print("\n");
 
 
+function mb_str_pad ($input, $pad_length, $pad_string, $pad_type, $encoding="UTF-8") { 
+    if (!$encoding) {
+        $diff = strlen($input) - mb_strlen($input);
+    }
+    else {
+        $diff = strlen($input) - mb_strlen($input, $encoding);
+    }
+    return str_pad($input, $pad_length + $diff, $pad_string, $pad_type);
+} 
+
+
 $q = query("SELECT uri FROM ``boards``");
 while ($f = $q->fetch()) {
-	printf("%10s || ", $f['uri']);
+	$str = $f['uri'];
+        $str = mb_str_pad($str,10," ", STR_PAD_LEFT, "UTF-8");
+        printf("%s || ", $str);
 	foreach ($variants as $iter) {
 		list($term, $time) = $iter;
 		$qq = query(sprintf("SELECT COUNT(*) as count FROM ``posts_%s`` WHERE time > %d", $f['uri'], time()-$time));