diff --git a/bundles/org.eclipse.rap.rwt.excanvas/src/org/eclipse/rap/rwt/excanvas/ExCanvasResource.java b/bundles/org.eclipse.rap.rwt.excanvas/src/org/eclipse/rap/rwt/excanvas/ExCanvasResource.java
index 3ea951c..c0e3d11 100644
--- a/bundles/org.eclipse.rap.rwt.excanvas/src/org/eclipse/rap/rwt/excanvas/ExCanvasResource.java
+++ b/bundles/org.eclipse.rap.rwt.excanvas/src/org/eclipse/rap/rwt/excanvas/ExCanvasResource.java
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
  *****************************************************************************/
 package org.eclipse.rap.rwt.excanvas;
 
-import org.eclipse.rwt.internal.util.HTML;
 import org.eclipse.rwt.resources.IResource;
 import org.eclipse.rwt.resources.IResourceManager.RegisterOptions;
 
@@ -26,7 +25,7 @@
   private String location;
   
   public String getCharset() {
-    return HTML.CHARSET_NAME_ISO_8859_1;
+    return "UTF-8";
   }
 
   public ClassLoader getLoader() {