diff --git a/conf/autoload_configs/xml_cdr.conf.xml b/conf/autoload_configs/xml_cdr.conf.xml
index 829d068824..65690f2fcf 100644
--- a/conf/autoload_configs/xml_cdr.conf.xml
+++ b/conf/autoload_configs/xml_cdr.conf.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>
 <configuration name="xml_cdr.conf" description="XML CDR CURL logger">
   <settings>
     <!-- the url to post to if blank web posting is disabled  -->
diff --git a/conf/lang/en/en.xml b/conf/lang/en/en.xml
index 9bfdf3660b..d9f6fe710c 100644
--- a/conf/lang/en/en.xml
+++ b/conf/lang/en/en.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>
 <include>
   <language name="en" sound-path="$${base_dir}/sounds/en/us/callie" tts-engine="cepstral" tts-voice="callie">
     <X-PRE-PROCESS cmd="include" data="demo/*.xml"/> <!-- Note: this now grabs whole subdir, previously grabbed only demo.xml -->