diff --git a/0001-Fix-encoding-for-gap.xml-use-UTF-8.patch b/0001-Fix-encoding-for-gap.xml-use-UTF-8.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8b39ba2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-Fix-encoding-for-gap.xml-use-UTF-8.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From cdde396dff2753106ade74942a312a063f66b218 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Luigi Toscano <luigi.toscano@tiscali.it>
+Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 01:18:06 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix encoding for gap.xml (use UTF-8)
+
+The file is really ASCII-only (7 bit), so both ISO-8859-15 and UTF-8 works
+but no need to use a deprecated encoding.
+(this could help systems were support for those encodings has been removed).
+---
+ src/syntax/data/gap.xml | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/syntax/data/gap.xml b/src/syntax/data/gap.xml
+index 1af543d..df766a0 100644
+--- a/src/syntax/data/gap.xml
++++ b/src/syntax/data/gap.xml
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-15"?>
++<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+ <!DOCTYPE language SYSTEM "language.dtd">
+ <!--
+ 	====================================================================
+-- 
+2.7.0
+
diff --git a/kf5-ktexteditor.spec b/kf5-ktexteditor.spec
index b4da959..86b8bfa 100644
--- a/kf5-ktexteditor.spec
+++ b/kf5-ktexteditor.spec
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ URL:            https://projects.kde.org/ktexteditor
 %endif
 Source0:        http://download.kde.org/%{stable}/frameworks/%{versiondir}/%{framework}-%{version}.tar.xz
 
+## Upstream patches
+Patch1:         0001-Fix-encoding-for-gap.xml-use-UTF-8.patch
+
+
 BuildRequires:  extra-cmake-modules >= %{version}
 BuildRequires:  kf5-karchive-devel >= %{version}
 BuildRequires:  kf5-kconfig-devel >= %{version}