diff --git a/tools/admin/skeletons/appengine/README.txt b/tools/admin/skeletons/appengine/README.txt
index 95c2a47ec..12dbfa694 100644
--- a/tools/admin/skeletons/appengine/README.txt
+++ b/tools/admin/skeletons/appengine/README.txt
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ following command:
 
 You need the Google App Engine SDK for Java in order to run and deploy
 the application. You can get the SDK and more information from
-<http://code.google.com/appengine/>.
+<https://developers.google.com/appengine/>.
diff --git a/tools/admin/skeletons/appengine/WEB-INF/appengine-web.xml b/tools/admin/skeletons/appengine/WEB-INF/appengine-web.xml
index efe1d7ab6..50a356ef9 100644
--- a/tools/admin/skeletons/appengine/WEB-INF/appengine-web.xml
+++ b/tools/admin/skeletons/appengine/WEB-INF/appengine-web.xml
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <appengine-web-app xmlns="http://appengine.google.com/ns/1.0">
 	<!-- Replace this with your application id from http://appengine.google.com -->
 	<application>app-id</application>
@@ -10,4 +11,4 @@
 	<precompilation-enabled>true</precompilation-enabled>
 	<sessions-enabled>true</sessions-enabled>
 	<threadsafe>true</threadsafe>
-</appengine-web-app>
+</appengine-web-app>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tools/admin/skeletons/appengine/WEB-INF/web.xml b/tools/admin/skeletons/appengine/WEB-INF/web.xml
index 0520bfe77..2ff72ffad 100644
--- a/tools/admin/skeletons/appengine/WEB-INF/web.xml
+++ b/tools/admin/skeletons/appengine/WEB-INF/web.xml
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<web-app 
-   xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" 
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<web-app
+   xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
-   version="2.5"> 
+   version="2.5">
   <display-name>RingoJS App</display-name>
 	<servlet>
 		<servlet-name>ringo</servlet-name>