2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d7df43b1..0b6ac334 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 - make icon+text act as a single item for links
+- make sure --save-html-pages write UTF-8 files
 
 Version 11.4 - 25 September 2008, Thierry Vignaud
 
diff --git a/control-center b/control-center
index 16cc4c1c..63af531a 100755
--- a/control-center
+++ b/control-center
@@ -892,7 +892,10 @@ foreach (@tree) {
     $page_count++;
 
     $string .= qq(</BODY></HTML>);
-    output_p("/tmp/mcc/$i.html", $string) if $save_html;
+    if ($save_html) {
+        mkdir_p('/tmp/mcc');
+        MDK::Common::File::output_utf8("/tmp/mcc/$i.html", $string);
+    }
 
     push @buttons, gtknew('Button', relief => 'none', child =>
                             gtknew('Label_Right', text_markup => qq(<small>$text</small>), ellipsize => 'end'),