diff --git a/xslt/divelogs-export.xslt b/xslt/divelogs-export.xslt
index d09f503ab..b3bed6c35 100644
--- a/xslt/divelogs-export.xslt
+++ b/xslt/divelogs-export.xslt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
   <xsl:import href="commonTemplates.xsl"/>
   <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
-  <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="iso-8859-1" indent="yes"
+  <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"
     cdata-section-elements="LOCATION SITE WEATHER WATERVIZIBILITY PARTNER BOATNAME CYLINDERDESCRIPTION LOGNOTES"
     />