diff --git a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/doclets/CheckDocsDoclet.java b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/doclets/CheckDocsDoclet.java
index 69e1d227f..1872560dc 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/doclets/CheckDocsDoclet.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/doclets/CheckDocsDoclet.java
@@ -19,10 +19,12 @@
 package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.doclets;
 
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileWriter;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.io.Writer;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Comparator;
 import com.sun.javadoc.ClassDoc;
@@ -165,8 +167,9 @@ public final class CheckDocsDoclet
         final File destDir = new File(getDestDir(root.options()));
 
         final File checksIndexFile = new File(destDir, "checks.xml");
-        final PrintWriter fileWriter = new PrintWriter(
-                new FileWriter(checksIndexFile));
+        final Writer writer =
+                new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(checksIndexFile), "UTF-8");
+        final PrintWriter fileWriter = new PrintWriter(writer);
         writeXdocsHeader(fileWriter, "Available Checks");
 
         fileWriter.println("<p>Checkstyle provides many checks that you can"
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/doclets/TokenTypesDoclet.java b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/doclets/TokenTypesDoclet.java
index 9354ad5cd..4eb161b12 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/doclets/TokenTypesDoclet.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/doclets/TokenTypesDoclet.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.doclets;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.PrintStream;
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 
 import com.sun.javadoc.ClassDoc;
 import com.sun.javadoc.DocErrorReporter;
@@ -51,15 +52,18 @@ public final class TokenTypesDoclet
      * @param root <code>RootDoc</code> given to the doclet
      * @exception FileNotFoundException will be thrown if the doclet
      *            will be unable to write to the specified file.
+     * @exception UnsupportedEncodingException will be thrown if the doclet
+     *            will be unable to use UTF-8 encoding.
      * @return true if the given <code>RootDoc</code> is processed.
      */
-    public static boolean start(RootDoc root) throws FileNotFoundException
+    public static boolean start(RootDoc root)
+            throws FileNotFoundException, UnsupportedEncodingException
     {
         final String fileName = getDestFileName(root.options());
         final FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(fileName);
         PrintStream ps = null;
         try {
-            ps = new PrintStream(fos);
+            ps = new PrintStream(fos, false, "UTF-8");
             final ClassDoc[] classes = root.classes();
             if (classes.length != 1
                 || !"TokenTypes".equals(classes[0].name()))