diff --git a/AUTHORS.TXT b/AUTHORS.TXT
index 5a9fd9565..20eddc025 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.TXT
+++ b/AUTHORS.TXT
@@ -2,4 +2,5 @@ The following people contributed code to the Open Source Routing Machine:
 
 Christian Vetter 
 Dennis Luxen
-Ruslan Krenzler
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+Ruslan Krenzler
+Frederik Ramm
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diff --git a/Plugins/BasicDescriptor.h b/Plugins/BasicDescriptor.h
index 50907aac8..10ebc0adc 100644
--- a/Plugins/BasicDescriptor.h
+++ b/Plugins/BasicDescriptor.h
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ public:
         intToString(reply.content.size(), tmp);
         reply.headers[0].value = tmp;
         reply.headers[1].name = "Content-Type";
-        reply.headers[1].value = "application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml";
+        reply.headers[1].value = "application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml; charset=UTF-8";
         reply.headers[2].name = "Content-Disposition";
         reply.headers[2].value = "attachment; filename=\"route.kml\"";