diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 682748d..f0ff46d 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -92,6 +92,9 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
       <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">
         Deprecate LogConfigurationException.cause in favor of getCause().
       </action>
+      <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">
+        Fix SpotBugs [ERROR] High: Found reliance on default encoding in org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.initDiagnostics(): new java.io.PrintStream(OutputStream) [org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory] At LogFactory.java:[line 1205] DM_DEFAULT_ENCODING.
+      </action>
       <!-- UPDATE -->
       <action dev="ggregory" type="update" due-to="Gary Gregory">
         Bump Java from 6 to 8.
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory.java
index 88418d7..2bce859 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory.java
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ import java.io.PrintStream;
 import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.URLConnection;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.security.AccessController;
 import java.security.PrivilegedAction;
 import java.util.Enumeration;
@@ -1202,7 +1204,7 @@ public abstract class LogFactory {
         try {
             // open the file in append mode
             final FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(dest, true);
-            return new PrintStream(fos);
+            return new PrintStream(fos, false, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name());
         } catch (final IOException ex) {
             // We should report this to the user - but how?
             return null;