diff --git a/stylesheets/dump-commands.xsl b/stylesheets/dump-commands.xsl
index 48af34c20..526a33102 100644
--- a/stylesheets/dump-commands.xsl
+++ b/stylesheets/dump-commands.xsl
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
     xmlns:exsl="http://exslt.org/common"
     extension-element-prefixes="exsl"
@@ -7,8 +7,7 @@
 <!-- XSLT stylesheet to extract commands from [B,H]LFS books. -->
 
   <xsl:variable name="newline">
-    <xsl:text>
-</xsl:text>
+    <xsl:text>&#xA;</xsl:text>
   </xsl:variable>
 
   <xsl:template match="/">
diff --git a/stylesheets/lfs-xsl/pdf.xsl b/stylesheets/lfs-xsl/pdf.xsl
index 679f73b84..ea247f5db 100644
--- a/stylesheets/lfs-xsl/pdf.xsl
+++ b/stylesheets/lfs-xsl/pdf.xsl
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@
        We have expanded the support to several inline tags.
        See pdf/lfs-mixed.xsl.
        Note: the argument in select= is a zero-width space
-       (unicode 200b, encoded in utf-8)-->
-  <xsl:param name="ulink.hyphenate" select="'​'"/>
+       (unicode 200b)-->
+  <xsl:param name="ulink.hyphenate" select="'&#x200B;'"/>
 
   <!-- List of characters to allow ulink URLs, and supported inline tags,
        to be automatically hyphenated on.
diff --git a/stylesheets/lfs-xsl/profile.xsl b/stylesheets/lfs-xsl/profile.xsl
index a19d924e9..80c9b01b5 100644
--- a/stylesheets/lfs-xsl/profile.xsl
+++ b/stylesheets/lfs-xsl/profile.xsl
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 
   <!-- Generate DocBook instance with correct DOCTYPE -->
   <xsl:output method="xml"
+              encoding="UTF-8"
               doctype-public="-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
               doctype-system="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"/>
 
diff --git a/stylesheets/md5sum.xsl b/stylesheets/md5sum.xsl
index bb7268276..121e0a274 100644
--- a/stylesheets/md5sum.xsl
+++ b/stylesheets/md5sum.xsl
@@ -31,8 +31,7 @@
       </xsl:call-template>
 
       <!-- Add a newline -->
-      <xsl:text>
-</xsl:text>
+      <xsl:text>&#xA;</xsl:text>
 
     </xsl:if>
   </xsl:template>
diff --git a/stylesheets/wget-list.xsl b/stylesheets/wget-list.xsl
index aa8d263c4..f55c37346 100644
--- a/stylesheets/wget-list.xsl
+++ b/stylesheets/wget-list.xsl
@@ -28,8 +28,7 @@
           <xsl:value-of select="@url"/>
         </xsl:otherwise>
       </xsl:choose>
-      <xsl:text>
-</xsl:text>
+      <xsl:text>&#xA;</xsl:text>
     </xsl:if>
   </xsl:template>