No need for that and it messes stuff. That refers to the localized document charset, not the po.
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
# Make sure the man pages are generated with the right encoding.
[po4a_alias:man] man \
opt_de:"-L ISO-8859-1" \
- opt_es:"-L UTF-8" \
+ opt_es:"-L ISO-8859-1" \
opt_fr:"-L ISO-8859-1" \
opt_hu:"-L ISO-8859-2 -A ISO-8859-2" \
opt_ja:"-L euc-jp -A utf-8" \