diff --git a/doc/README.html.in b/doc/README.html.in
index 92b1032..6fed0dd 100644
--- a/doc/README.html.in
+++ b/doc/README.html.in
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!-- -*-html-helper-*- -->
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- -*-html-helper-*- -->
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 
 <head>
+<meta charset="utf-8" />
 <title>PulseAudio Volume Control @PACKAGE_VERSION@</title>
 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
 </head>
