diff --git a/Documentation.html b/Documentation.html
index 28314ef60..2012389ca 100755
--- a/Documentation.html
+++ b/Documentation.html
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
 <!DOCTYPE html
     PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
diff --git a/header.inc.php3 b/header.inc.php3
index 1c549db28..c52e399fa 100755
--- a/header.inc.php3
+++ b/header.inc.php3
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=' . $charset);
  */
 // Gets the font sizes to use
 set_font_sizes();
-echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="' . strtoupper($charset) . '"?>' . "\n";
 ?>
 <!DOCTYPE html
     PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
diff --git a/index.php3 b/index.php3
index e564220fb..205d777c9 100755
--- a/index.php3
+++ b/index.php3
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ if (empty($HTTP_HOST)) {
 $url_query = 'lang=' . $lang
            . '&amp;server=' . $server
            . (empty($db) ? '' : '&amp;db=' . urlencode($db));
-echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="' . strtoupper($charset) . '"?>' . "\n";
 ?>
 <!DOCTYPE html
     PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN"
diff --git a/left.php3 b/left.php3
index ff823f5b0..f2c35bdd8 100755
--- a/left.php3
+++ b/left.php3
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=' . $charset);
  */
 // Gets the font sizes to use
 set_font_sizes();
-echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="' . strtoupper($charset) . '"?>' . "\n";
 ?>
 <!DOCTYPE html
     PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
diff --git a/libraries/common.lib.php3 b/libraries/common.lib.php3
index f2e23fc19..177ebf7fb 100644
--- a/libraries/common.lib.php3
+++ b/libraries/common.lib.php3
@@ -69,8 +69,6 @@ if (!defined('__LIB_COMMON__')){
         header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="phpMyAdmin ' . trim($GLOBALS['strRunning']) . ' ' . $GLOBALS['cfgServer']['host'] . '"');
         header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');
         header('status: 401 Unauthorized');
-
-        echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="' . strtoupper($GLOBALS['charset']) . '"?>' . "\n";
         ?>
 <!DOCTYPE html
     PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
