diff --git a/wp-atom.php b/wp-atom.php
index 8e5cb4eeee..408080ccfb 100644
--- a/wp-atom.php
+++ b/wp-atom.php
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ if (! $feed) {
 header('Content-type: application/atom+xml', true);
 
 ?>
-<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0"?'.'>'; ?>
+<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'.get_settings('blog_charset').'"?'.'>'; ?>
 <feed version="0.3"
   xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#"
   xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
diff --git a/wp-rdf.php b/wp-rdf.php
index 3598c26b6f..d58dcb931d 100644
--- a/wp-rdf.php
+++ b/wp-rdf.php
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ header("Etag: " . $cetag, true);
 
 add_filter('the_content', 'trim');
 ?>
-<?php echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?".">"; ?>
+<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'.get_settings('blog_charset').'"?'.'>'; ?>
 <!-- generator="wordpress/<?php echo $wp_version ?>" -->
 <rdf:RDF
 	xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"
diff --git a/wp-rss.php b/wp-rss.php
index 09ad5e9098..48eea39a7b 100644
--- a/wp-rss.php
+++ b/wp-rss.php
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ header("Etag: " . $cetag, true);
 */
 
 ?>
-<?php echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?".">"; ?>
+<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'.get_settings('blog_charset').'"?'.'>'; ?>
 <!-- generator="wordpress/<?php echo $wp_version ?>" -->
 <rss version="0.92">
     <channel>
diff --git a/wp-rss2.php b/wp-rss2.php
index 4b7a04b242..7b04e65c96 100644
--- a/wp-rss2.php
+++ b/wp-rss2.php
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ header("Etag: " . $cetag, true);
 */
 
 ?>
-<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0"?'.'>'; ?>
+<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'.get_settings('blog_charset').'"?'.'>'; ?>
 <!-- generator="wordpress/<?php echo $wp_version ?>" -->
 <rss version="2.0" 
 	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/">