Index: src/OFLHAArchive.h
==================================================================
--- src/OFLHAArchive.h
+++ src/OFLHAArchive.h
@@ -41,11 +41,11 @@
 @protected
 	bool _hasWritten;
 }
 
 /**
- * @brief The encoding to use for the archive. Defaults to ISO 8859-1.
+ * @brief The encoding to use for the archive. Defaults to UTF-8.
  */
 @property (nonatomic) OFStringEncoding encoding;
 
 /**
  * @brief Creates a new OFLHAArchive object with the specified stream.

Index: src/OFLHAArchive.m
==================================================================
--- src/OFLHAArchive.m
+++ src/OFLHAArchive.m
@@ -133,12 +133,10 @@
 			 * good way to check for this other than reading the
 			 * entire archive.
 			 */
 			[(OFSeekableStream *)_stream seekToOffset: -1
 							   whence: OFSeekEnd];
-
-		_encoding = OFStringEncodingISO8859_1;
 	} @catch (id e) {
 		[self release];
 		@throw e;
 	}