diff --git a/documentation/manual/src/main/docbook/en-US/content/batch.xml b/documentation/manual/src/main/docbook/en-US/content/batch.xml
index c2ff070740..f5b375b02c 100755
--- a/documentation/manual/src/main/docbook/en-US/content/batch.xml
+++ b/documentation/manual/src/main/docbook/en-US/content/batch.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<?xml version='1.0' encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
+<?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!--
   ~ Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
   ~