Index: trunk/src/org/openstreetmap/josm/gui/help/HelpContentReader.java
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--- trunk/src/org/openstreetmap/josm/gui/help/HelpContentReader.java	(revision 2899)
+++ trunk/src/org/openstreetmap/josm/gui/help/HelpContentReader.java	(revision 2900)
@@ -53,5 +53,5 @@
             con = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
             con.connect();
-            in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream()));
+            in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream(),"utf-8"));
             return prepareHelpContent(in);
         } catch(MalformedURLException e) {