Index: NekoHTMLGenerator.java
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--- NekoHTMLGenerator.java	(revision 597695)
+++ NekoHTMLGenerator.java	(working copy)
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Properties;
@@ -314,6 +315,7 @@
         private static HTMLConfiguration getConfig(Properties properties) {
             HTMLConfiguration config = new HTMLConfiguration();
             config.setProperty("http://cyberneko.org/html/properties/names/elems", "lower");
+            config.setProperty("http://cyberneko.org/html/properties/default-encoding", Charset.defaultCharset().name());
             if (properties != null) {
                 for (Iterator i = properties.keySet().iterator();i.hasNext();) {
                     String name = (String) i.next();