diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 6521143b6..d6d15ffe8 100755
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2009-11-17  Carsten Dominik  <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
+
+	* org-freemind.el (org-freemind-escape-str-from-org): Fix encoding.
+
 2009-11-17  Eric Schulte  <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
 
 	* org-exp-blocks.el (org-export-blocks-format-ditaa): Use sha1
diff --git a/lisp/org-freemind.el b/lisp/org-freemind.el
index c1510b62c..883d92486 100644
--- a/lisp/org-freemind.el
+++ b/lisp/org-freemind.el
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ The characters \"&<> will be escaped."
                       ;; file is utf-8:
                       ;;
                       ;; (format "&#x%x;" (- cc ;; ?\x800))
-                      (char-to-string cc)
+		      (format "&#x%x" (encode xx 'ucs))
                       ))))
     fm-str))