diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3637f604..72ed493f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
  (Format: Year/Month/Day)
 Changes for 1.0.0:
+*07/03/31:
+   * Make fluxbox-generate_menu emit [encoding] tags around all of its
+     menus. Please check that it is the right encoding, I had to guess
+     some as it wasn't recorded (Simon)
+     util/fluxbox-generate_menu.in
 *07/03/30:
    * Added fi_FI support (Thanks Pasi Juvonen, loudvr at yahoo ca)
     nls/fi_FI/*, util/fluxbox-generate_menu.in
diff --git a/util/fluxbox-generate_menu.in b/util/fluxbox-generate_menu.in
index 34fef525..c5122169 100755
--- a/util/fluxbox-generate_menu.in
+++ b/util/fluxbox-generate_menu.in
@@ -555,6 +555,9 @@ rm -f ${MENUFILENAME}.tmp
 }
 
 # menu defaults (if translation forget to set one of them)
+
+MENU_ENCODING=UTF-8 # (its also ascii)
+
 ABOUTITEM='About'
 BACKGROUNDMENU='Backgrounds'
 BACKGROUNDMENUTITLE='Set the Background'
@@ -606,6 +609,8 @@ case ${LC_ALL} in
 # $ diff u fluxbox-generate-menu.in.orig fluxbox-generate-menu.in > fbgm.diff
 # email fbgm.diff to han@mijncomputer.nl
 
+        MENU_ENCODING=KOI8-R
+
         BACKGROUNDMENU='ïÂÏÉ'
         BACKGROUNDMENUTITLE='õÓÔÁÎÏ×ÉÔØ ÏÂÏÉ'
         BROWSERMENU='âÒÁÕÚÅÒÙ'
@@ -642,6 +647,9 @@ case ${LC_ALL} in
         ;;
 
     cs_CZ.ISO*) # Czech locales (ISO-8859-2 encodings)
+
+        MENU_ENCODING=ISO-8859-2
+
         ABOUTITEM='O programu...'
         BACKGROUNDMENU='Pozadí'
         BACKGROUNDMENUTITLE='Nastavení pozadí'
@@ -684,6 +692,9 @@ case ${LC_ALL} in
         ;;
 
     de_DE*) # german locales
+
+        MENU_ENCODING=ISO-8859-15
+
         BACKGROUNDMENU='Hintergrundbilder'
         BACKGROUNDMENUTITLE='Hintergrundbild setzen'
         BROWSERMENU='Internet-Browser'
@@ -725,6 +736,8 @@ case ${LC_ALL} in
 # $ diff u fluxbox-generate-menu.in.orig fluxbox-generate-menu.in > fbgm.diff
 # email fbgm.diff to han@mijncomputer.nl
 
+        MENU_ENCODING=ISO-8859-1
+
         BACKGROUNDMENU='Bakgrunder'
         BACKGROUNDMENUTITLE='Sätt bakgrund'
         BROWSERMENU='Webbläsare'
@@ -762,6 +775,9 @@ case ${LC_ALL} in
         XUTILSMENU='X-program'
         ;;
     nl_*) #Nederlandse locales
+
+        MENU_ENCODING=ISO-8859-15
+
         BACKGROUNDMENU='Achtergrond'
         BACKGROUNDMENUTITLE='Kies een achtergrond'
         BROWSERMENU='Browsers'
@@ -797,6 +813,9 @@ case ${LC_ALL} in
         XUTILSMENU='X-Gereedschap'
         ;;
     fi_FI*) #Finnish locales
+
+        MENU_ENCODING=ISO-8859-1
+
         ABOUTMENU='Tietoja ohjelmasta'
         ABOUTITEM='Tietoja ohjelmasta'
         BACKGROUNDMENU='Taustakuvat'
@@ -840,6 +859,8 @@ case ${LC_ALL} in
 # $ diff u fluxbox-generate-menu.in.orig fluxbox-generate-menu.in > fbgm.diff
 # email fbgm.diff to han@mijncomputer.nl
 
+        MENU_ENCODING=eucJP
+
         BACKGROUNDMENU='ÇØ·Ê'
         BACKGROUNDMENUTITLE='ÇطʤÎÀßÄê'
         BROWSERMENU='¥Ö¥é¥¦¥¶'
@@ -881,6 +902,8 @@ case ${LC_ALL} in
 # $ diff u fluxbox-generate-menu.in.orig fluxbox-generate-menu.in > fbgm.diff
 # email fbgm.diff to han@mijncomputer.nl
 
+        MENU_ENCODING=ISO-8859-15
+
         BACKGROUNDMENU="Fond d'écran"
         BACKGROUNDMENUTITLE="Changer le fond d'écran"
         BROWSERMENU='Navigateurs'
@@ -916,6 +939,9 @@ case ${LC_ALL} in
         XUTILSMENU='Outils X'
         ;;
     it_IT*) # italian locales
+
+        MENU_ENCODING=ISO-8859-1
+
         BACKGROUNDMENU='Sfondi'
         BACKGROUNDMENUTITLE='Imposta lo sfondo'
         BROWSERMENU='Browsers'
@@ -957,6 +983,8 @@ case ${LC_ALL} in
 # $ diff u fluxbox-generate-menu.in.orig fluxbox-generate-menu.in > fbgm.diff
 # email fbgm.diff to han@mijncomputer.nl
 
+        MENU_ENCODING=ISO-8859-15
+
         BACKGROUNDMENU='Fundaluri'
         BACKGROUNDMENUTITLE='Alege fundalul'
         BROWSERMENU='Navigatoare'
@@ -994,6 +1022,8 @@ case ${LC_ALL} in
         ;;
     es_ES*) # spanish locales
 
+        MENU_ENCODING=ISO-8859-15
+
         ABOUTITEM='Acerca'
         BACKGROUNDMENU='Fondos'
         BACKGROUNDMENUTITLE='Seleccionar Fondo'
@@ -1041,6 +1071,8 @@ case ${LC_ALL} in
 # $ diff u fluxbox-generate-menu.in.orig fluxbox-generate-menu.in > fbgm.diff
 # email fbgm.diff to han@mijncomputer.nl
 
+        MENU_ENCODING=ISO-8859-2
+
         BACKGROUNDMENU='Tapety'
         BACKGROUNDMENUTITLE='Ustaw tapetê'
         BROWSERMENU='Przegl±darki'
@@ -1077,6 +1109,9 @@ case ${LC_ALL} in
         XUTILSMENU='Narzêdzia X'
         ;;
     pt_PT*) # Portuguese locales
+
+        MENU_ENCODING=ISO-8859-1
+
         ABOUTMENU="Sobre"
         BACKGROUNDMENU='Imagens de Fundo'
         BACKGROUNDMENUTITLE='Definir Imagem de Fundo'
@@ -1119,6 +1154,9 @@ case ${LC_ALL} in
         XUTILSMENU='Utilitários X'
         ;;
     nb_NO*) # Norwegian locales
+
+        MENU_ENCODING=UTF-8
+
         ABOUTITEM='Om'
         BACKGROUNDMENU='Bakgrunner'
         BACKGROUNDMENUTITLE='Velg bakgrunn'
@@ -1515,6 +1553,10 @@ EOF
 
 echo "[begin] (${MENUTITLE})" >> ${MENUFILENAME}
 
+if [ -n "$MENU_ENCODING" ]; then
+    append_menu "[encoding] {$MENU_ENCODING}"
+fi
+
 append "[exec] (${DEFAULT_TERMNAME}) {${DEFAULT_TERM}}"
 
 case "$DEFAULT_BROWSERNAME" in
@@ -1830,6 +1872,11 @@ append_submenu "${FBSETTINGSMENU}"
     append "[exit] (${EXITITEM})"
 
     append_menu_end
+
+if [ -n "$MENU_ENCODING" ]; then
+    append_menu "[endencoding]"
+fi
+
 append_menu_end
 
 # this function removes empty menu items. It can not yet  remove  nested