diff --git a/resources/recipes/sueddeutsche.recipe b/resources/recipes/sueddeutsche.recipe
index 8f4d7e5892..9a5b00fc6c 100644
--- a/resources/recipes/sueddeutsche.recipe
+++ b/resources/recipes/sueddeutsche.recipe
@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@ class Sueddeutsche(BasicNewsRecipe):
     no_stylesheets = True
     language = 'de'
 
-    encoding = 'iso-8859-15'
+    encoding = 'utf-8'
     remove_javascript = True
 
-    
+
     remove_tags = [ dict(name='link'), dict(name='iframe'),
                     dict(name='div', attrs={'id':["bookmarking","themenbox","artikelfoot","CAD_AD",
 						  "SKY_AD","NT1_AD","navbar1","sdesiteheader"]}),