diff --git a/po/it.po b/po/it.po
index 32d07a1c172b251a4770a64826be327f371623b4..8014ea07c56c66475e7b41a43dfdf5ec5ebfe247 100644
--- a/po/it.po
+++ b/po/it.po
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ msgstr ""
 "Last-Translator: Carlo Calabrò\n"
 "Language-Team: Italian <it@li.org>\n"
 "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
-"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
 "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
 
 #: include/vlc_help.h:32