diff --git a/lib/gollum.rb b/lib/gollum.rb
index 69701208..b2d3d992 100644
--- a/lib/gollum.rb
+++ b/lib/gollum.rb
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ require File.expand_path('../gollum/web_sequence_diagram', __FILE__)
 require File.expand_path('../gollum/frontend/uri_encode_component', __FILE__)
 
 # Set ruby to UTF-8 mode
+# Do not remove because of warning.
+# This is required for Ruby 1.8.7 which gollum still supports.
 $KCODE = 'U'
 
 module Gollum
diff --git a/lib/gollum/frontend/views/page.rb b/lib/gollum/frontend/views/page.rb
index 9dbcbb8b..a359e66a 100644
--- a/lib/gollum/frontend/views/page.rb
+++ b/lib/gollum/frontend/views/page.rb
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ module Precious
       def page_header_from_content(content)
         doc = build_document(content)
         title = find_header_node(doc)
-        Sanitize.clean(title.to_html).strip unless title.empty?
+        Sanitize.clean(title.to_html(:encoding => 'UTF-8')).strip unless title.empty?
       end
 
       # Returns page content without title if it was extracted.