diff --git a/darshan-util/darshan-job-summary/bin/darshan-job-summary.pl.in b/darshan-util/darshan-job-summary/bin/darshan-job-summary.pl.in
index 09d7ff0c1830b6131dd9cbc47b40639eddacc554..77cfabab5ac7093eda5e83978c13ea6ed82a2960 100755
--- a/darshan-util/darshan-job-summary/bin/darshan-job-summary.pl.in
+++ b/darshan-util/darshan-job-summary/bin/darshan-job-summary.pl.in
@@ -132,6 +132,9 @@ while ($line = <TRACE>) {
         # parse line
 	@fields = split(/[\t ]+/, $line);
 
+        # encode the file system name to protect against special characters
+        $fields[5] = encode('latex', $fields[5]);
+        
         # is this our first piece of data?
         if($first_data_line)
         {