diff --git a/jetty-http/src/main/resources/org/eclipse/jetty/http/encoding.properties b/jetty-http/src/main/resources/org/eclipse/jetty/http/encoding.properties
index 16d4f8ac3e2..04fe87e7514 100644
--- a/jetty-http/src/main/resources/org/eclipse/jetty/http/encoding.properties
+++ b/jetty-http/src/main/resources/org/eclipse/jetty/http/encoding.properties
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-text/html	= iso-8859-1
-text/plain	= iso-8859-1
-text/xml	= utf-8
-text/json   = utf-8
+text/html=utf-8
+text/plain=iso-8859-1
+text/xml=utf-8
+text/json=utf-8
+application/xhtml+xml=utf-8
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