diff --git a/app/models/channel/email_parser.rb b/app/models/channel/email_parser.rb
index 812767dd9..016fa411d 100644
--- a/app/models/channel/email_parser.rb
+++ b/app/models/channel/email_parser.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # encoding: utf-8
 
 require 'mail'
+require 'encode'
 
 class Channel::EmailParser
 
diff --git a/lib/encode.rb b/lib/encode.rb
index c6cb5f7c5..a6cdcca91 100644
--- a/lib/encode.rb
+++ b/lib/encode.rb
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ module Encode
 #    puts '-------' + charset
 #    puts string
     # convert string
-    string.encode!( 'UTF-8', charset.upcase )
+    string.encode!( 'UTF-8', charset )
 #    Iconv.conv( 'UTF8', charset, string )
   end
 end
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