diff --git a/Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py b/Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py
index 0110da01818..3e0334da3b3 100644
--- a/Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py
+++ b/Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 import BaseHTTPServer
 import urllib
 import cgi
+import sys
 import shutil
 import mimetypes
 try:
@@ -131,7 +132,8 @@ def list_directory(self, path):
         length = f.tell()
         f.seek(0)
         self.send_response(200)
-        self.send_header("Content-type", "text/html")
+        encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
+        self.send_header("Content-type", "text/html; charset=%s" % encoding)
         self.send_header("Content-Length", str(length))
         self.end_headers()
         return f