diff --git a/src/frontends/qt2/ChangeLog b/src/frontends/qt2/ChangeLog
index c738ca0261..8535dd7b5d 100644
--- a/src/frontends/qt2/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/frontends/qt2/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2005-04-08  Angus Leeming  <leeming@lyx.org>
+
+	* QAbout.C (build_dialog): specify that the CREDITS data is
+	encoded in ISO-8859-1 (latin1).
+
 2005-03-30  Jean-Marc Lasgouttes  <lasgouttes@lyx.org>
 
 	* ui/QCitationDialogBase.ui: fix typo in tooltip
diff --git a/src/frontends/qt2/QAbout.C b/src/frontends/qt2/QAbout.C
index 74a6fef243..6975b8cb28 100644
--- a/src/frontends/qt2/QAbout.C
+++ b/src/frontends/qt2/QAbout.C
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 
 #include <qlabel.h>
 #include <qpushbutton.h>
+#include <qtextcodec.h>
 #include <qtextview.h>
 
 #include "QAboutDialog.h"
@@ -96,7 +97,16 @@ void QAbout::build_dialog()
 	}
 #endif
 
-	dialog_->creditsTV->setText(toqstr(out.str()));
+	// Try and grab the latin1 codec
+	QTextCodec * const codec =
+		QTextCodec::codecForName("ISO8859-1");
+	if (!codec)
+		lyxerr << "Unable to find ISO8859-1 codec" << std::endl;
+
+	QString const qtext = codec ?
+		codec->toUnicode(out.str().c_str()) :
+		toqstr(out.str());
+	dialog_->creditsTV->setText(qtext);
 
 	// try to resize to a good size
 	dialog_->copyright->hide();
diff --git a/status.13x b/status.13x
index b76306dfd7..ef5c5f29ef 100644
--- a/status.13x
+++ b/status.13x
@@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ What's new
 
 - Fix binding of Shift-Tab, which was broken on some systems.
 
+- Enable the display of accented characters in the Help->About dialog.
+
 
 * Configuration/Installation: