diff --git a/lib/ChangeLog b/lib/ChangeLog
index 9701904532..e0075e5037 100644
--- a/lib/ChangeLog
+++ b/lib/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2003-09-10  Dekel Tsur  <dekelts@tau.ac.il>
+
+	* lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx: Declare encoding for python >= 2.3
+
 2003-09-08  Jean-Marc Lasgouttes  <lasgouttes@lyx.org>
 
 	* bind/aqua.bind: new bindings useful on aqua (from Ronald
diff --git a/lib/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx b/lib/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx
index 8f94d08cf0..0dd6248323 100755
--- a/lib/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx
+++ b/lib/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
 # Copyright (C) 2002 José Matos <jamatos@lyx.org>
 #
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or