diff --git a/inc/templates/header.php b/inc/templates/header.php
index 1cce6c5433ab61a93d03251ddf4a0f164f9e43a3..e016cd9f021d66704b2c6b38189bc0d2a36bd7bb 100755
--- a/inc/templates/header.php
+++ b/inc/templates/header.php
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
<title>ownCloud</title>
<base href="<?php echo($WEBROOT); ?>/"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php