diff --git a/src/stylesheets/tei2html/utils/render.xsl b/src/stylesheets/tei2html/utils/render.xsl
index e59170a..f65e537 100644
--- a/src/stylesheets/tei2html/utils/render.xsl
+++ b/src/stylesheets/tei2html/utils/render.xsl
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
     <xsl:param name="dc_title"/>
     <xsl:param name="dc_publisher"/>
     <xsl:param name="dc_creator"/>
+    <meta charset="utf-8"/>
     <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge,chrome=1"/>
     <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"/>
     <meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache"/>