diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index 7527119..d2187ae 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+Fix an encoding issue
+
 1.12.0
 Add flag ACCEPT_NULL_DATES
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/timroes/axmlrpc/XMLRPCClient.java b/src/main/java/de/timroes/axmlrpc/XMLRPCClient.java
index 078819b..efcf0f4 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/timroes/axmlrpc/XMLRPCClient.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/timroes/axmlrpc/XMLRPCClient.java
@@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ public Object call(String methodName, Object[] params) throws XMLRPCException {
 				authManager.setAuthentication(http);
 				cookieManager.setCookies(http);
 
-				OutputStreamWriter stream = new OutputStreamWriter(http.getOutputStream());
+				OutputStreamWriter stream = new OutputStreamWriter(http.getOutputStream(), "UTF-8");
 				stream.write(c.getXML(isFlagSet(FLAGS_DEBUG)));
 				stream.flush();
 				stream.close();