diff --git a/lib/editor/tinymce/plugins/spellchecker/classes/GoogleSpell.php b/lib/editor/tinymce/plugins/spellchecker/classes/GoogleSpell.php
index afb60da13cb..e3acf2d878c 100644
--- a/lib/editor/tinymce/plugins/spellchecker/classes/GoogleSpell.php
+++ b/lib/editor/tinymce/plugins/spellchecker/classes/GoogleSpell.php
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ class GoogleSpell extends SpellChecker {
 		$matches = $this->_getMatches($lang, $word);
 
 		if (count($matches) > 0)
-			$sug = explode("\t", utf8_encode($this->_unhtmlentities($matches[0][4])));
+			$sug = explode("\t", $this->_unhtmlentities($matches[0][4]));
 
 		// Remove empty
 		foreach ($sug as $item) {