diff --git a/ui/index.jsp b/ui/index.jsp
index 24a677838ee..582e20b818b 100644
--- a/ui/index.jsp
+++ b/ui/index.jsp
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
   <head>
+    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
     <title>CloudStack</title>
     <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="lib/reset.css"/>
     <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="css/cloudstack3.css" />
