diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f746206fde01908f885b85a61e139b2f1dd175bd..56afdf08194681d9c63ec5c4e99aef5cf094dcf0 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2012-07-12  Niels Möller  <nisse@lysator.liu.se>
+
+	* doc/Makefile.in (.nroff.txt): Pass -Tutf8 to groff.
+
 2012-07-10  Niels Möller  <nisse@lysator.liu.se>
 
 	* src/testsuite/mini-inetd.c (usage): Take a FILE * as argument.
diff --git a/doc/Makefile.in b/doc/Makefile.in
index 34580de2c72d038e6cade576f7e4647856a51550..5e4855bec0ee5cfed9ca9009827279e38738b4d8 100644
--- a/doc/Makefile.in
+++ b/doc/Makefile.in
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ PS2PDFFLAGS=-dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 -dMAxSubsetPct=100 -dSubsetFonts=true -dEmb
 	cd $(srcdir) && ps2pdf $(PS2PDFFLAGS) `basename "$<" .texinfo`.ps
 
 .nroff.txt:
-	$(GROFF) -ms -Tlatin1 $< | perl $(srcdir)/fixff.pl >$@T
+	$(GROFF) -ms -Tutf8 $< | perl $(srcdir)/fixff.pl >$@T
 	test -s $@T && mv -f $@T $@
 
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