diff --git a/openldap.spec b/openldap.spec
index 0ed9fbe..4cc6a40 100644
--- a/openldap.spec
+++ b/openldap.spec
@@ -164,6 +164,12 @@ done
 ln -s ../../../contrib/slapd-modules/smbk5pwd/smbk5pwd.c servers/slapd/overlays
 mv contrib/slapd-modules/smbk5pwd/README contrib/slapd-modules/smbk5pwd/README.smbk5pwd
 
+# fix documentation encoding
+for filename in doc/drafts/draft-ietf-ldapext-acl-model-xx.txt; do
+	iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 "$filename" > "$filename.utf8"
+	mv "$filename.utf8" "$filename"
+done
+
 popd
 
 # setup tree for openldap with evolution-specific patches