diff --git a/lisp/international/mule-conf.el b/lisp/international/mule-conf.el
index 696a8d91f8d..ae9dd41c6b4 100644
--- a/lisp/international/mule-conf.el
+++ b/lisp/international/mule-conf.el
@@ -463,8 +463,8 @@
    coding-category-sjis 
    coding-category-big5
    coding-category-ccl
-   coding-category-utf-8
    coding-category-binary
+   coding-category-utf-8
    coding-category-utf-16-be
    coding-category-utf-16-le))