diff --git a/ocropus-gpageseg b/ocropus-gpageseg
index 55e9e091..2571f355 100755
--- a/ocropus-gpageseg
+++ b/ocropus-gpageseg
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ def process1(job):
         print_error("%s: bad scale (%g); skipping\n" % (fname, scale))
         return
     if scale<args.minscale:
-        print_error("%s: scale (%g) less than --minscale; skipping\n" % (fname, scale))
+        print_error("%s: scale (%g) less than --minscale (%g); skipping\n" % (fname, scale, args.minscale))
         return
 
     # find columns and text lines
diff --git a/ocropus-visualize-results b/ocropus-visualize-results
index 45231685..33f494a1 100755
--- a/ocropus-visualize-results
+++ b/ocropus-visualize-results
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ def genpage(d):
     try:
         os.chdir(d)
         with open("index.html","w") as stream:
+            stream.write("<head>")
+            stream.write('<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />')
+            stream.write("</head>")
             stream.write("<h1>%s</h1>\n"%d)
             images = sorted(glob.glob("??????.bin.png"))
             for img in images:
