diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 524c7d4370e..a7d7da7c185 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -701,6 +701,7 @@
           <tocMaxDepth>2</tocMaxDepth>
           <insertXrefPageNumber>yes</insertXrefPageNumber>
           <targetDirectory>${basedir}/target/docbkx</targetDirectory>
+          <chunkerOutputEncoding>UTF-8</chunkerOutputEncoding>
         </configuration>
         <executions>
           <execution>
diff --git a/src/docbkx/customization.xsl b/src/docbkx/customization.xsl
index f4f64b645cb..a5065a48ff9 100644
--- a/src/docbkx/customization.xsl
+++ b/src/docbkx/customization.xsl
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
  */
 -->
   <xsl:import href="urn:docbkx:stylesheet"/>
+  <xsl:output method="html" encoding="UTF-8" indent="no"/>
 
   <xsl:template name="user.header.content">
   </xsl:template>