Index: kcontrol/spellchecking/spellchecking.cpp
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--- kcontrol/spellchecking/spellchecking.cpp	(revision 652943)
+++ kcontrol/spellchecking/spellchecking.cpp	(working copy)
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
     spellConfig->setRunTogether(0);
     spellConfig->setDictionary("");
     spellConfig->setDictFromList(FALSE);
-    spellConfig->setEncoding (KS_E_ASCII);
+    spellConfig->setEncoding (KS_E_UTF8);
     spellConfig->setClient (KS_CLIENT_ISPELL);
 }