diff --git a/0001-convert-to-UTF-8.patch b/0001-convert-to-UTF-8.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e478a6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-convert-to-UTF-8.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+From a691504d5fb8fada5343252d3ce5bd147c677e50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: David Tardon <dtardon@redhat.com>
+Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 12:52:56 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] convert to UTF-8
+
+---
+ NEWS   | 2 +-
+ THANKS | 4 ++--
+ 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
+index b3c4c19..65dd5d8 100644
+--- a/NEWS
++++ b/NEWS
+@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@
+     Win32DynamicLibraryManager.cpp.
+ 
+   - MinGW, cygwin: enable build of shared library when using libtool. 
+-    patch #1194394 contributed by St�phane Fillod.
++    patch #1194394 contributed by Stéphane Fillod.
+ 
+   - autotool: applied patch #1076398 contributed by Henner Sudek. Quote:
+ 		 "This patch allows AM_PATH_CPPUNIT to accept version
+diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
+index 89cfa9c..331f916 100644
+--- a/THANKS
++++ b/THANKS
+@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ Lavoie Philippe <lavoie@yukon.genie.uottawa.ca>
+ Pavel Zabelin
+ Marco Welti <Welti@GretagMacbeth.ch>
+ Thomas Neidhart
+-Hans B�hler <hans.buehler@topmail.de> (Dynamic Window library used by MFC UI)
++Hans Bühler <hans.buehler@topmail.de> (Dynamic Window library used by MFC UI)
+ John Sisson
+ Steven Mitter <smitter@iicm.tu-graz.ac.at>
+ Stephan Stapel <stephan.stapel@web.de>
+ Abdessattar Sassi <abdesassi@users.sourceforge.net> (hp-ux plug-in support)
+ Max Quatember and Andreas Pfaffenbichler (VC++ 7 MFC TestRunner go to source line)
+-Vincent Rivi�re
++Vincent Rivière
+-- 
+2.5.0
+
diff --git a/cppunit.spec b/cppunit.spec
index f2938eb..3515621 100644
--- a/cppunit.spec
+++ b/cppunit.spec
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ License: LGPLv2+
 Url: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/cppunit/
 Source: http://dev-www.libreoffice.org/src/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 Patch0: 0001-Update-FSF-address-in-LGPL-license.patch
+Patch1: 0001-convert-to-UTF-8.patch
 
 BuildRequires: doxygen
 BuildRequires: graphviz
@@ -36,11 +37,6 @@ the popular doxygen documentation generation tool.
 
 %prep
 %autosetup -p1
-for file in THANKS NEWS; do
-   iconv -f latin1 -t utf8 < $file > ${file}.utf8
-   touch -c -r $file ${file}.utf8
-   mv ${file}.utf8 $file
-done
 
 %build
 %configure --enable-doxygen --disable-static --disable-silent-rules