diff --git a/functions/functions.xhtml.php b/functions/functions.xhtml.php
index 63986737..79dfba86 100644
--- a/functions/functions.xhtml.php
+++ b/functions/functions.xhtml.php
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ function xhtml_head($title="",$body=true,$css=false,$javascript=false,$bodytext=
 	<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" 
 	   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
 	<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
-	<head><title><? if (empty($title)) print "queXS"; else print "queXS: $title"; ?></title>
+	<head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/><title><? if (empty($title)) print "queXS"; else print "queXS: $title"; ?></title>
 <?
 	if ($css)
 		foreach ($css as $c) print "<link rel='stylesheet' href='$c' type='text/css'></link>";
