diff --git a/src/messages/it.po b/src/messages/it.po
index 7f0775d34..16c1ef18e 100644
--- a/src/messages/it.po
+++ b/src/messages/it.po
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ msgstr ""
 "Last-Translator: Flavio 'Iron Bishop' Pastore <flavio.pastore@zonaitalia.it>\n"
 "Language-Team: Italian <LL@li.org>\n"
 "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
-"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\n"
 "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
 
 #: tuxpaint.c:801