Index: applications/editors/josm/plugins/osmarender/src/org/openstreetmap/josm/plugins/osmarender/OsmarenderPlugin.java
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--- applications/editors/josm/plugins/osmarender/src/org/openstreetmap/josm/plugins/osmarender/OsmarenderPlugin.java	(revision 29638)
+++ applications/editors/josm/plugins/osmarender/src/org/openstreetmap/josm/plugins/osmarender/OsmarenderPlugin.java	(revision 29639)
@@ -10,4 +10,5 @@
 import java.io.FileReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.util.HashSet;
@@ -74,5 +75,6 @@
             try {
                 // write to plugin dir
-                OsmWriter w = OsmWriterFactory.createOsmWriter(new PrintWriter(new FileOutputStream(getPluginDir()+File.separator+"data.osm")), false, "0.6");
+                OsmWriter w = OsmWriterFactory.createOsmWriter(new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(
+                        new FileOutputStream(getPluginDir()+File.separator+"data.osm"), "UTF-8")), false, "0.6");
                 w.header();
 
@@ -198,7 +200,7 @@
         BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
                 new FileReader( getPluginDir() + File.separator + "osm-map-features.xml") );
-        PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter( getPluginDir() + File.separator + "generated.xml");
-
-        // osm-map-fetaures.xml contain two placemark
+        PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter( getPluginDir() + File.separator + "generated.xml", "UTF-8");
+
+        // osm-map-features.xml contain two placemark
         // (bounds_mkr1 and bounds_mkr2). We write the bounds tag
         // between the two