diff --git a/database/database.xml b/database/database.xml
index 0688984..a22b49d 100644
--- a/database/database.xml
+++ b/database/database.xml
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
         <field name="realname" type="string" length="1024" default=""/>
         <field name="verifyCert" type="boolean" default="true"/>
 
-        <field name="encodingOut" type="string" default="utf-8"/>
-        <field name="encodingIn"  type="string" default="utf-8"/>
+        <field name="encodingOut" type="string" default="ISO-8859-1"/>
+        <field name="encodingIn"  type="string" default="ISO-8859-1"/>
 
         <index unique="true">
             <indexfield name="owner"/>