diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0ee51d091b..c625b983ba 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-06-14  David Hampton  <hampton@employees.org>
+
+	* src/import-export/hbci/gnc-hbci-utils.c: HBCI data is already in
+	utf8. Don't recode into the local charset (which may not be utf8).
+
 2006-06-14  Christian Stimming  <stimming@tuhh.de>
 
 	* src/import-export/hbci/gnc-hbci-utils.c: Similarly ensure for
diff --git a/src/import-export/hbci/gnc-hbci-utils.c b/src/import-export/hbci/gnc-hbci-utils.c
index 71cd1f7574..b43e2d15da 100644
--- a/src/import-export/hbci/gnc-hbci-utils.c
+++ b/src/import-export/hbci/gnc-hbci-utils.c
@@ -636,12 +636,7 @@ gchar *gnc_call_iconv(GIConv handler, const gchar* input)
 
 const char *gnc_hbci_book_encoding()
 {
-#if HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET
-  char* encoding = nl_langinfo(CODESET);
-#else
-  char* encoding = "UTF-8";
-#endif
-  return encoding;
+  return "UTF-8";
 }
 
 const char *gnc_hbci_AQBANKING_encoding()