diff --git a/phpgwapi/inc/class.xslttemplates.inc.php b/phpgwapi/inc/class.xslttemplates.inc.php
index f32b058063..0c2690b18f 100644
--- a/phpgwapi/inc/class.xslttemplates.inc.php
+++ b/phpgwapi/inc/class.xslttemplates.inc.php
@@ -174,13 +174,13 @@
 		{
 			if(count($this->xslfiles) > 0)
 			{
-				$this->xsldata = '<?xml version="1.0"?>'."\n";
+				$this->xsldata = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="' . lang('charset') . '"?>'."\n";
 				$this->xsldata .= '<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet ['."\n";
 				$this->xsldata .= '<!ENTITY nl "&#10;">'."\n";
 				$this->xsldata .= '<!ENTITY nbsp "&#160;">'."\n";
 				$this->xsldata .= ']>'."\n";
 				$this->xsldata .= '<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">'."\n";
-				$this->xsldata .= '<xsl:output method="html" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes" doctype-public="-//W3C/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" standalone="yes" media-type="text/html"/>'."\n";
+				$this->xsldata .= '<xsl:output method="html" version="1.0" encoding="' . lang('charset') . '" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes" doctype-public="-//W3C/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" standalone="yes" media-type="text/html"/>'."\n";
 				$this->xsldata .= '<xsl:template match="/">'."\n";
 				$this->xsldata .= "\t".'<xsl:apply-templates select="PHPGW"/>'."\n";
 				$this->xsldata .= '</xsl:template>'."\n";