1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/OpenSim/Framework/Serialization/TarArchiveWriter.cs b/OpenSim/Framework/Serialization/TarArchiveWriter.cs
index 7040870..20d0f7e 100644
--- a/OpenSim/Framework/Serialization/TarArchiveWriter.cs
+++ b/OpenSim/Framework/Serialization/TarArchiveWriter.cs
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework.Serialization
         //private static readonly ILog m_log = LogManager.GetLogger(MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().DeclaringType);
 
         protected static ASCIIEncoding m_asciiEncoding = new ASCIIEncoding();
+        protected static UTF8Encoding m_utf8Encoding = new UTF8Encoding();
 
         /// <summary>
         /// Binary writer for the underlying stream
@@ -71,7 +72,7 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework.Serialization
         /// <param name="data"></param>
         public void WriteFile(string filePath, string data)
         {
-            WriteFile(filePath, m_asciiEncoding.GetBytes(data));
+            WriteFile(filePath, m_utf8Encoding.GetBytes(data));
         }
 
         /// <summary>