diff --git a/src/plugins/lib/libhtml.py b/src/plugins/lib/libhtml.py
index 948c1180d..c8ce5d64c 100644
--- a/src/plugins/lib/libhtml.py
+++ b/src/plugins/lib/libhtml.py
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ class Html(list):
         if title is not None: 
             head += (Html('title', title, inline=True, indent=True))
         if html5:
-            head += Html('meta', charset="utf-8", indent=True)
+            head += Html('meta', charset=encoding, indent=True)
         else:
             meta1 = 'http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=%s"'
             meta2 = 'http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"'