diff --git a/spring-restdocs-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/restdocs/config/RestDocumentationConfigurer.java b/spring-restdocs-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/restdocs/config/RestDocumentationConfigurer.java
index b2ab8316..67147fc9 100644
--- a/spring-restdocs-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/restdocs/config/RestDocumentationConfigurer.java
+++ b/spring-restdocs-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/restdocs/config/RestDocumentationConfigurer.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2014-2019 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2014-2020 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 package org.springframework.restdocs.config;
 
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -116,7 +117,8 @@ public abstract class RestDocumentationConfigurer<S extends AbstractConfigurer,
 				}
 				engineToUse = new MustacheTemplateEngine(
 						new StandardTemplateResourceResolver(snippetConfiguration.getTemplateFormat()),
-						Mustache.compiler().escapeHTML(false), templateContext);
+						Charset.forName(snippetConfiguration.getEncoding()), Mustache.compiler().escapeHTML(false),
+						templateContext);
 			}
 			configuration.put(TemplateEngine.class.getName(), engineToUse);
 		}
diff --git a/spring-restdocs-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/restdocs/templates/mustache/MustacheTemplateEngine.java b/spring-restdocs-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/restdocs/templates/mustache/MustacheTemplateEngine.java
index 2820731e..584c871a 100644
--- a/spring-restdocs-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/restdocs/templates/mustache/MustacheTemplateEngine.java
+++ b/spring-restdocs-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/restdocs/templates/mustache/MustacheTemplateEngine.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2014-2019 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2014-2020 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ package org.springframework.restdocs.templates.mustache;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Map;
 
@@ -40,23 +42,38 @@ public class MustacheTemplateEngine implements TemplateEngine {
 
 	private final TemplateResourceResolver templateResourceResolver;
 
+	private final Charset templateEncoding;
+
 	private final Compiler compiler;
 
 	private final Map<String, Object> context;
 
 	/**
 	 * Creates a new {@code MustacheTemplateEngine} that will use the given
-	 * {@code templateResourceResolver} to resolve template paths.
+	 * {@code templateResourceResolver} to resolve template paths. Templates will be read
+	 * as UTF-8.
 	 * @param templateResourceResolver the resolver to use
 	 */
 	public MustacheTemplateEngine(TemplateResourceResolver templateResourceResolver) {
 		this(templateResourceResolver, Mustache.compiler().escapeHTML(false));
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Creates a new {@code MustacheTemplateEngine} that will use the given
+	 * {@code templateResourceResolver} to resolve template paths, reading them using the
+	 * given {@code templateEncoding}.
+	 * @param templateResourceResolver the resolver to use
+	 * @param templateEncoding the charset to use when reading the templates
+	 * @since 2.0.5
+	 */
+	public MustacheTemplateEngine(TemplateResourceResolver templateResourceResolver, Charset templateEncoding) {
+		this(templateResourceResolver, templateEncoding, Mustache.compiler().escapeHTML(false));
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Creates a new {@code MustacheTemplateEngine} that will use the given
 	 * {@code templateResourceResolver} to resolve templates and the given
-	 * {@code compiler} to compile them.
+	 * {@code compiler} to compile them. Templates will be read as UTF-8.
 	 * @param templateResourceResolver the resolver to use
 	 * @param compiler the compiler to use
 	 */
@@ -67,8 +84,23 @@ public class MustacheTemplateEngine implements TemplateEngine {
 	/**
 	 * Creates a new {@code MustacheTemplateEngine} that will use the given
 	 * {@code templateResourceResolver} to resolve templates and the given
-	 * {@code compiler} to compile them. Compiled templates will be created with the given
-	 * {@code context}.
+	 * {@code compiler} to compile them. Templates will be read using the given
+	 * {@code templateEncoding}.
+	 * @param templateResourceResolver the resolver to use
+	 * @param templateEncoding the charset to use when reading the templates
+	 * @param compiler the compiler to use
+	 * @since 2.0.5
+	 */
+	public MustacheTemplateEngine(TemplateResourceResolver templateResourceResolver, Charset templateEncoding,
+			Compiler compiler) {
+		this(templateResourceResolver, templateEncoding, compiler, Collections.<String, Object>emptyMap());
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Creates a new {@code MustacheTemplateEngine} that will use the given
+	 * {@code templateResourceResolver} to resolve templates. Templates will be read as
+	 * UTF-8. Once read, the given {@code compiler} will be used to compile them. Compiled
+	 * templates will be created with the given {@code context}.
 	 * @param templateResourceResolver the resolver to use
 	 * @param compiler the compiler to use
 	 * @param context the context to pass to compiled templates
@@ -77,7 +109,27 @@ public class MustacheTemplateEngine implements TemplateEngine {
 	 */
 	public MustacheTemplateEngine(TemplateResourceResolver templateResourceResolver, Compiler compiler,
 			Map<String, Object> context) {
+		this(templateResourceResolver, StandardCharsets.UTF_8, compiler, context);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Creates a new {@code MustacheTemplateEngine} that will use the given
+	 * {@code templateResourceResolver} to resolve templates. Template will be read using
+	 * the given {@code templateEncoding}. Once read, the given {@code compiler} will be
+	 * used to compile them. Compiled templates will be created with the given
+	 * {@code context}.
+	 * @param templateResourceResolver the resolver to use
+	 * @param templateEncoding the charset to use when reading the templates
+	 * @param compiler the compiler to use
+	 * @param context the context to pass to compiled templates
+	 * @since 2.0.5
+	 * @see MustacheTemplate#MustacheTemplate(org.springframework.restdocs.mustache.Template,
+	 * Map)
+	 */
+	public MustacheTemplateEngine(TemplateResourceResolver templateResourceResolver, Charset templateEncoding,
+			Compiler compiler, Map<String, Object> context) {
 		this.templateResourceResolver = templateResourceResolver;
+		this.templateEncoding = templateEncoding;
 		this.compiler = compiler;
 		this.context = context;
 	}
@@ -85,7 +137,8 @@ public class MustacheTemplateEngine implements TemplateEngine {
 	@Override
 	public Template compileTemplate(String name) throws IOException {
 		Resource templateResource = this.templateResourceResolver.resolveTemplateResource(name);
-		return new MustacheTemplate(this.compiler.compile(new InputStreamReader(templateResource.getInputStream())),
+		return new MustacheTemplate(
+				this.compiler.compile(new InputStreamReader(templateResource.getInputStream(), this.templateEncoding)),
 				this.context);
 	}
 
diff --git a/spring-restdocs-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/restdocs/config/RestDocumentationConfigurerTests.java b/spring-restdocs-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/restdocs/config/RestDocumentationConfigurerTests.java
index c8ade927..f5f0e708 100644
--- a/spring-restdocs-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/restdocs/config/RestDocumentationConfigurerTests.java
+++ b/spring-restdocs-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/restdocs/config/RestDocumentationConfigurerTests.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2014-2019 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2014-2020 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 package org.springframework.restdocs.config;
 
 import java.net.URI;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -73,6 +74,8 @@ public class RestDocumentationConfigurerTests {
 		this.configurer.apply(configuration, createContext());
 		assertThat(configuration).containsKey(TemplateEngine.class.getName());
 		assertThat(configuration.get(TemplateEngine.class.getName())).isInstanceOf(MustacheTemplateEngine.class);
+		assertThat(configuration.get(TemplateEngine.class.getName())).hasFieldOrPropertyWithValue("templateEncoding",
+				StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
 		assertThat(configuration).containsKey(WriterResolver.class.getName());
 		assertThat(configuration.get(WriterResolver.class.getName())).isInstanceOf(StandardWriterResolver.class);
 		assertThat(configuration).containsKey(RestDocumentationGenerator.ATTRIBUTE_NAME_DEFAULT_SNIPPETS);
@@ -147,12 +150,15 @@ public class RestDocumentationConfigurerTests {
 	@Test
 	public void customSnippetEncoding() {
 		Map<String, Object> configuration = new HashMap<>();
-		this.configurer.snippets().withEncoding("ISO 8859-1").apply(configuration, createContext());
+		this.configurer.snippets().withEncoding("ISO-8859-1");
+		this.configurer.apply(configuration, createContext());
 		assertThat(configuration).containsKey(SnippetConfiguration.class.getName());
 		assertThat(configuration.get(SnippetConfiguration.class.getName())).isInstanceOf(SnippetConfiguration.class);
 		SnippetConfiguration snippetConfiguration = (SnippetConfiguration) configuration
 				.get(SnippetConfiguration.class.getName());
-		assertThat(snippetConfiguration.getEncoding()).isEqualTo("ISO 8859-1");
+		assertThat(snippetConfiguration.getEncoding()).isEqualTo(StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1.displayName());
+		assertThat(configuration.get(TemplateEngine.class.getName())).hasFieldOrPropertyWithValue("templateEncoding",
+				StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1);
 	}
 
 	@Test