diff -r abaee83ce0a6 -r 57b797601b61 mercurial/hgweb/hgwebdir_mod.py
--- a/mercurial/hgweb/hgwebdir_mod.py	Wed Dec 13 13:27:09 2006 -0600
+++ b/mercurial/hgweb/hgwebdir_mod.py	Thu Dec 14 15:55:46 2006 -0600
@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@
 
     def run_wsgi(self, req):
         def header(**map):
-            header_file = cStringIO.StringIO(''.join(tmpl("header", **map)))
+            header_file = cStringIO.StringIO(
+                ''.join(tmpl("header", encoding=util._encoding, **map)))
             msg = mimetools.Message(header_file, 0)
             req.header(msg.items())
             yield header_file.read()