diff --git a/checkin_notes b/checkin_notes
index fa71699057..ec4bfedec8 100644
--- a/checkin_notes
+++ b/checkin_notes
@@ -8839,3 +8839,9 @@ David  23 Dec 2010
         sim.cpp
         sim_util.cpp
         sim_control.php
+
+Rytis  24 Dec 2010
+    - user web: change forum RSS encoding from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
+    
+    html/inc/
+        forum_rss.inc
diff --git a/html/inc/forum_rss.inc b/html/inc/forum_rss.inc
index 4909bc5341..b2913eb0f4 100644
--- a/html/inc/forum_rss.inc
+++ b/html/inc/forum_rss.inc
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ function forum_rss($forumid, $userid, $truncate, $threads_only, $ndays) {
     }
     $channel_image = URL_BASE . "rss_image.gif";
     $language = "en-us";
-    echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\" ?>
+    echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" ?>
         <rss version=\"2.0\">
         <channel>
         <title>".$description."</title>