diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4dff767e36..e46b9cb79a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2012-06-13  Carlos O'Donell  <carlos_odonell@mentor.com>
+
+	* po/Makefile (libc.pot): Use UTF-8 charset.
+
 2012-06-13  Paul Pluzhnikov  <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
 
 	[BZ #14210]
diff --git a/po/Makefile b/po/Makefile
index 4ca0d1c4d1..3e3f909b97 100644
--- a/po/Makefile
+++ b/po/Makefile
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ libc.pot: header.pot libc.pot.files
 	set `date -R`; disp="$$6"; \
 	sed -e 's/VERSION/$(version)/' \
 	    -e "s/DATE/`date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M'$$disp`/" \
+	    -e "s/CHARSET/UTF-8/" \
 	    $< > $@.new
 	egrep -v '\.ksh$$' $(word 2,$^) > $(objdir)/tmp-libc.pot-files
 	cd ..; $(XGETTEXT) --keyword=_ --keyword=N_ \