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>