diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml

index 8abb466..945f41d 100755

--- a/build.xml

+++ b/build.xml

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@

 	<target name="jar" depends="clean">

 		<mkdir dir="${target}"/>

 		<mkdir dir="${bin}"/>

-		<javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${bin}" source="1.4" target="1.4"/>

+		<javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${bin}" source="1.8" target="1.8" encoding="UTF-8"/>

 		<jar destfile="${target}/${jar}">

 			<manifest>

 				<attribute name="Main-Class" value="org.w3c.tidy.Tidy"/>

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@

 	</target>

 	<target name="javadoc" depends="clean">

-		<javadoc sourcepath="${src}" destdir="${target}/${doc}" windowtitle=" JTidy ${version} " doctitle="JTidy ${version} API documentation">

+		<javadoc sourcepath="${src}" destdir="${target}/${doc}" windowtitle=" JTidy ${version} " doctitle="JTidy ${version} API documentation" encoding="UTF-8">

 			<tag name="todo" scope="all" description="To do:"/>

 		</javadoc>

 	</target>