diff --git a/templates/default/publish.js b/templates/default/publish.js
index 092514f4..63a62f96 100644
--- a/templates/default/publish.js
+++ b/templates/default/publish.js
@@ -132,7 +132,8 @@ function generate(title, docs, filename, resolveLinks) {
     fs.writeFileSync(outpath, html, 'utf8');
 }
 
-function generateSourceFiles(sourceFiles) {
+function generateSourceFiles(sourceFiles, encoding) {
+    encoding = encoding || 'utf8';
     Object.keys(sourceFiles).forEach(function(file) {
         var source;
         // links are keyed to the shortened path in each doclet's `meta.filename` property
@@ -142,7 +143,7 @@ function generateSourceFiles(sourceFiles) {
         try {
             source = {
                 kind: 'source',
-                code: helper.htmlsafe( fs.readFileSync(sourceFiles[file].resolved, 'utf8') )
+                code: helper.htmlsafe( fs.readFileSync(sourceFiles[file].resolved, encoding) )
             };
         }
         catch(e) {
@@ -486,7 +487,7 @@ exports.publish = function(taffyData, opts, tutorials) {
     // output pretty-printed source files by default; do this before generating any other pages, so
     // that the other pages can link to the source files
     if (!conf['default'] || conf['default'].outputSourceFiles !== false) {
-        generateSourceFiles(sourceFiles);
+        generateSourceFiles(sourceFiles, opts.encoding);
     }
 
     if (members.globals.length) { generate('Global', [{kind: 'globalobj'}], globalUrl); }