diff --git a/src/Buffer.cpp b/src/Buffer.cpp
index 2e43a15ed2..4d7adc3534 100644
--- a/src/Buffer.cpp
+++ b/src/Buffer.cpp
@@ -2254,9 +2254,7 @@ Buffer::ExportStatus Buffer::writeLyXHTMLSource(odocstream & os,
 		os << "<!DOCTYPE html>\n"
 		   << "<html xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\" lang=\"" << from_ascii(htmlCode) << "\">\n"
 		   << "<head>\n"
-		   << "<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"" << PACKAGE_STRING << "\" />\n"
-		   // FIXME Presumably need to set this right
-		   << "<meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text/html; charset=UTF-8\" />\n";
+		   << "<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"" << PACKAGE_STRING << "\" />\n";
 
 		docstring const & doctitle = features.htmlTitle();
 		os << "<title>"
