diff --git a/koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/css/en/includes/opac-basket-top.inc b/koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/css/en/includes/opac-basket-top.inc
index 72e8d9bab3..5955531595 100644
--- a/koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/css/en/includes/opac-basket-top.inc
+++ b/koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/css/en/includes/opac-basket-top.inc
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
 	<title>OPAC Basket</title>
+	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
 	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<!-- TMPL_VAR name="themelang">/includes/opac.css">
 	<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="<!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="themelang" -->/includes/basket.js"></script>
 	<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
diff --git a/koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/css/en/includes/opac-top.inc b/koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/css/en/includes/opac-top.inc
index ab49a48dae..68848cf62c 100644
--- a/koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/css/en/includes/opac-top.inc
+++ b/koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/css/en/includes/opac-top.inc
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<!-- TMPL_VAR name="themelang"-->/includes/opac.css" />
 	<!-- /TMPL_IF -->
 	<title><!--TMPL_VAR name="LibraryName"--></title>
+	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
 	<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="<!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="themelang" -->/includes/basket.js"></script>
 	<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
 		function _(s) { return s } // dummy function for gettext