diff --git a/lib/jasmine/template_writer.rb b/lib/jasmine/template_writer.rb
index 6a99ca4..f88e699 100644
--- a/lib/jasmine/template_writer.rb
+++ b/lib/jasmine/template_writer.rb
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ module Jasmine
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
 <html>
 <head>
+  <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/>
   <title>Jasmine Test Runner</title>
   <script type="text/javascript">
     window.console = { log: function(data) { 
