diff --git a/src/control/settings/Settings.cpp b/src/control/settings/Settings.cpp
index 22a7f3d3..5e9dc2cc 100644
--- a/src/control/settings/Settings.cpp
+++ b/src/control/settings/Settings.cpp
@@ -892,7 +892,7 @@ void Settings::save()
 		saveData(root, p.first, p.second);
 	}
 
-	xmlSaveFormatFileEnc(filename.c_str(), doc, "ISO-8859-1", 1);
+	xmlSaveFormatFileEnc(filename.c_str(), doc, "UTF-8", 1);
 	xmlFreeDoc(doc);
 }