diff --git a/ExtendedWPFToolkitSolution/Src/Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit/Core/Html/HtmlEncodedTextWriter.cs b/ExtendedWPFToolkitSolution/Src/Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit/Core/Html/HtmlEncodedTextWriter.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..17e5fc71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ExtendedWPFToolkitSolution/Src/Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit/Core/Html/HtmlEncodedTextWriter.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Net;
+using System.Text;
+using System.Xml;
+
+namespace Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit.Core.Html
+{
+    public class HtmlEncodedTextWriter : XmlTextWriter
+    {
+        private readonly XmlTextWriter _textWriter;
+
+        public HtmlEncodedTextWriter(TextWriter w) : base(w)
+        {
+            _textWriter = this;
+        }
+
+        #region Overrides of XmlTextWriter
+
+
+        /// <inheritdoc />
+        public override void WriteString(string text)
+        {
+            text = WebUtility.HtmlEncode(text);
+            _textWriter.WriteRaw(text);
+        }
+
+        #endregion
+    }
+}
diff --git a/ExtendedWPFToolkitSolution/Src/Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit/Core/Html/HtmlFromXamlConverter.cs b/ExtendedWPFToolkitSolution/Src/Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit/Core/Html/HtmlFromXamlConverter.cs
index 9ea817d6..ec54fd8d 100644
--- a/ExtendedWPFToolkitSolution/Src/Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit/Core/Html/HtmlFromXamlConverter.cs
+++ b/ExtendedWPFToolkitSolution/Src/Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit/Core/Html/HtmlFromXamlConverter.cs
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ namespace Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit.Core.Html
             xamlReader = new XmlTextReader(new StringReader(xamlString));
 
             htmlStringBuilder = new StringBuilder(100);
-            htmlWriter = new XmlTextWriter(new StringWriter(htmlStringBuilder));
+            htmlWriter = new HtmlEncodedTextWriter(new StringWriter(htmlStringBuilder));
 
             if (!WriteFlowDocument(xamlReader, htmlWriter))
             {
diff --git a/ExtendedWPFToolkitSolution/Src/Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit/RichTextBox/Formatters/XamlFormatter.cs b/ExtendedWPFToolkitSolution/Src/Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit/RichTextBox/Formatters/XamlFormatter.cs
index 30ed667a..56462e29 100644
--- a/ExtendedWPFToolkitSolution/Src/Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit/RichTextBox/Formatters/XamlFormatter.cs
+++ b/ExtendedWPFToolkitSolution/Src/Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit/RichTextBox/Formatters/XamlFormatter.cs
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ namespace Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit
       using( MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream() )
       {
         tr.Save( ms, DataFormats.Xaml );
-        return ASCIIEncoding.Default.GetString( ms.ToArray() );
+        return Encoding.UTF8.GetString( ms.ToArray() );
       }
     }
 
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ namespace Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit
         else
         {
           TextRange tr = new TextRange( document.ContentStart, document.ContentEnd );
-          using( MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream( Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes( text ) ) )
+          using( MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream( Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes( text ) ) )
           {
             tr.Load( ms, DataFormats.Xaml );
           }
diff --git a/ExtendedWPFToolkitSolution/Src/Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit/Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit.csproj b/ExtendedWPFToolkitSolution/Src/Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit/Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit.csproj
index 3a2191d7..0e088b70 100644
--- a/ExtendedWPFToolkitSolution/Src/Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit/Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit.csproj
+++ b/ExtendedWPFToolkitSolution/Src/Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit/Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit.csproj
@@ -395,6 +395,7 @@
     <Compile Include="Core\Converters\ColorModeToTabItemSelectedConverter.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Core\Html\CssStylesheet.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Core\Html\HtmlCSSParser.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="Core\Html\HtmlEncodedTextWriter.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Core\Html\HtmlFromXamlConverter.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Core\Html\HtmlLexicalAnalyzer.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Core\Html\HtmlParser.cs" />
diff --git a/ExtendedWPFToolkitSolution/Tests/Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit.Tests/RichTextBox/Formatters/HtmlFormatterTests.cs b/ExtendedWPFToolkitSolution/Tests/Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit.Tests/RichTextBox/Formatters/HtmlFormatterTests.cs
index 8d46e1e9..e775fb0f 100644
--- a/ExtendedWPFToolkitSolution/Tests/Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit.Tests/RichTextBox/Formatters/HtmlFormatterTests.cs
+++ b/ExtendedWPFToolkitSolution/Tests/Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit.Tests/RichTextBox/Formatters/HtmlFormatterTests.cs
@@ -16,14 +16,14 @@ namespace Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit.Tests
 
         public FlowDocument CreateSimpleFlowDocument()
         {
-            var r = new Run("Hallo Welt!");
+            var r = new Run("Hallo Welt! ÄÖÜ äöü ^ \" ß ' & <>");
             var b = new Bold(r);
             var p = new Paragraph(b);
             return  new FlowDocument(p);
         }
 
         public string CreateSimpleHtml() =>
-            "<html><body><p><b>Hallo Welt!</b></p><body></html>";
+            "<html><body><p><b>Hallo Welt! &#196;&#214;&#220; &#228;&#246;&#252; ^ &quot; &#223; &#39; &amp; &lt;&gt;</b></p><body></html>";
 
         [Test]
         public void GetText_ShouldReturnAHtmlText()
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ namespace Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit.Tests
 
             var actual = sut.GetText(doc);
 
-            const string expectedText = "Hallo Welt!";
+            const string expectedText = "Hallo Welt! &#196;&#214;&#220; &#228;&#246;&#252; ^ &quot; &#223; &#39; &amp; &lt;&gt;";
             const string expectedBoldStyle = "bold";
             const string expectedHtmlTag = "<html>";
 
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ namespace Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit.Tests
 
             var actual = new XamlFormatter().GetText(doc);
 
-            const string expectedText = "Hallo Welt!";
+            const string expectedText = "Hallo Welt! ÄÖÜ äöü ^ \" ß ' &amp; &lt;&gt;";
             const string expectedBoldStyle = "Bold";
             const string expectedSection = "Section";