diff --git a/tests/config/recoll.conf b/tests/config/recoll.conf
index 0fc58834..59d3e389 100644
--- a/tests/config/recoll.conf
+++ b/tests/config/recoll.conf
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ daemSkippedPaths =  \
     /home/dockes/projets/fulltext/testrecoll/skipped/real* \
     /home/dockes/projets/fulltext/testrecoll/config
 
+defaultcharset = iso-8859-1
+
 [/home/dockes/projets/fulltext/testrecoll/special]
 defaultcharset = iso-8859-1
 [/home/dockes/projets/fulltext/testrecoll/txt]
diff --git a/tests/html/html.sh b/tests/html/html.sh
index 6f50d60d..c7cf1a64 100755
--- a/tests/html/html.sh
+++ b/tests/html/html.sh
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ recollq -q 'effrayanteUTF8HTML'
 recollq -q 'accentueesUTF8HTML'
 recollq -q 'accentueesISOHTML'
 
+recollq -q html5charsetaccentue
+
 ) 2> $mystderr | egrep -v '^Recoll query: ' > $mystdout
 
 diff -w ${myname}.txt $mystdout > $mydiffs 2>&1
diff --git a/tests/html/html.txt b/tests/html/html.txt
index 7fb7fc5a..d72f2987 100644
--- a/tests/html/html.txt
+++ b/tests/html/html.txt
@@ -18,3 +18,5 @@ text/html	[file:///home/dockes/projets/fulltext/testrecoll/html/utf8.html]	[Some
 text/html	[file:///home/dockes/projets/fulltext/testrecoll/html/utf8.html]	[Some chars]	330	bytes	
 1 results
 text/html	[file:///home/dockes/projets/fulltext/testrecoll/html/iso.html]	[Some chars]	249	bytes	
+1 results
+text/html	[file:///home/dockes/projets/fulltext/testrecoll/html/html5charset.html]	[html5charset.html]	113	bytes