diff --git a/doc/misc/ChangeLog b/doc/misc/ChangeLog
index 63e2cf728ff..ca0a3c4faa5 100644
--- a/doc/misc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/misc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2014-05-24  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+	Specify coding if Latin-1 Emacs would misinterpret (Bug#17575).
+	* htmlfontify.texi, org.texi: Add "coding: utf-8".
+
 2014-05-23  Stephen Berman  <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
 
 	* todo-mode.texi: Update in light of changes due to bug#17482.
diff --git a/doc/misc/htmlfontify.texi b/doc/misc/htmlfontify.texi
index 48b40eb84a4..1d8794d772d 100644
--- a/doc/misc/htmlfontify.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/htmlfontify.texi
@@ -1589,3 +1589,7 @@ A copy of the @code{file} command.
 
 @setchapternewpage odd
 @bye
+
+@c Local Variables:
+@c coding: utf-8
+@c End:
diff --git a/doc/misc/org.texi b/doc/misc/org.texi
index 418eb1d6944..3800a41d239 100644
--- a/doc/misc/org.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/org.texi
@@ -18208,6 +18208,7 @@ org-customize @key{RET}} and then click yourself through the tree.
 @bye
 
 @c Local variables:
+@c coding: utf-8
 @c fill-column: 77
 @c indent-tabs-mode: nil
 @c paragraph-start:    "\\|^@[a-zA-Z]*[ \n]\\|^@x?org\\(key\\|cmd\\)\\|\f\\|[ 	]*$"
diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog
index aa53b5b9998..dd703fc8f8e 100644
--- a/etc/ChangeLog
+++ b/etc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2014-05-24  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+	Specify coding if Latin-1 Emacs would misinterpret (Bug#17575).
+	* ETAGS.EBNF, NEWS, ORG-NEWS: Add "coding: utf-8".
+
 2014-04-11  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
 	* refcards/cs-dired-ref.tex, refcards/cs-refcard.tex:
diff --git a/etc/ETAGS.EBNF b/etc/ETAGS.EBNF
index 66a974b948c..0d872383a16 100644
--- a/etc/ETAGS.EBNF
+++ b/etc/ETAGS.EBNF
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
--*- indented-text -*-
+-*- mode: indented-text; coding: utf-8 -*-
 
 See the end of this file for copyright information.
 
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 5ed551caeaf..c272660af1b 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -4072,6 +4072,7 @@ along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 
 Local variables:
+coding: utf-8
 mode: outline
 paragraph-separate: "[ 	]*$"
 end:
diff --git a/etc/ORG-NEWS b/etc/ORG-NEWS
index c74506ce3ac..46b4c954ecd 100644
--- a/etc/ORG-NEWS
+++ b/etc/ORG-NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-ORG NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.           -*- org -*-
+ORG NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.   -*- mode: org; coding: utf-8 -*-
 
 #+LINK: doc http://orgmode.org/worg/doc.html#%s
 #+LINK: git http://orgmode.org/w/?p=org-mode.git;a=commit;h=%s