diff --git a/pisi/xmlfile.py b/pisi/xmlfile.py
index c990e746..ad906eda 100644
--- a/pisi/xmlfile.py
+++ b/pisi/xmlfile.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #           Baris Metin <baris@uludag.org.tr
 
 import xml.dom.minidom as mdom
+import codecs
 
 from xmlext import *
 
@@ -36,7 +37,7 @@ class XmlFile(object):
         self.dom = mdom.parse(fileName)
 
     def writexml(self, fileName):
-        f = file(fileName,'w')
+        f = codecs.open(fileName,'w', "utf-8")
         self.dom.writexml(f)
 
     def verifyRootTag(self):
diff --git a/samples/amarok/amarok-1.3-beta1.pspec b/samples/amarok/amarok-1.3-beta1.pspec
index 6215e859..29bb4465 100644
--- a/samples/amarok/amarok-1.3-beta1.pspec
+++ b/samples/amarok/amarok-1.3-beta1.pspec
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     <Name>amarok</Name>
     <Homepage>http://amarok.kde.org/</Homepage>
     <Packager>
-      <Name>Baris Metin</Name>
+      <Name>Barış Metin</Name>
       <Email>baris@uludag.org.tr</Email>
     </Packager>
     <License>GPL</License>
diff --git a/samples/popt/popt.pspec b/samples/popt/popt.pspec
index 7fa93e6c..e540dd2f 100644
--- a/samples/popt/popt.pspec
+++ b/samples/popt/popt.pspec
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     <Name>popt</Name>
     <Homepage>http://www.rpm.org/</Homepage>
     <Packager>
-      <Name>Kirmizi kafalar</Name>
+      <Name>Kırmızı kafalar</Name>
       <Email>hotmail@redhat.com</Email>
     </Packager>
     <License>As-Is</License>
diff --git a/samples/startup-notification/startup-notification.pspec b/samples/startup-notification/startup-notification.pspec
index 721c79bc..c109a12e 100644
--- a/samples/startup-notification/startup-notification.pspec
+++ b/samples/startup-notification/startup-notification.pspec
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     <Name>startup-notification</Name>
     <Homepage>http://www.freedesktop.org/software/startup-notification/</Homepage>
     <Packager>
-      <Name>Kirmizi kafalar</Name>
+      <Name>Kırmızı kafalar</Name>
       <Email>hotmail@redhat.com</Email>
     </Packager>
     <License>LGPL-2, BSD</License>