diff --git a/lib/utils.py b/lib/utils.py
index 0a22383..94acfcd 100644
--- a/lib/utils.py
+++ b/lib/utils.py
@@ -196,17 +196,3 @@ def cleanString(toclean):
     cleaned = re.sub('[^A-Za-z0-9]+', '', toclean)
 
     return cleaned
-
-def decodeArgumentStrings(options, encoding):
-    # Python crash when decoding from UTF-8 to UTF-8, so we prevent this
-    if "utf-8" == encoding.lower():
-        return;
-
-    if options["--name"] is not None:
-        options["--name"] = options["--name"].decode(encoding)
-
-    if options["--description"] is not None:
-        options["--description"] = options["--description"].decode(encoding)
-
-    if options["--tags"] is not None:
-        options["--tags"] = options["--tags"].decode(encoding)
diff --git a/prismedia_upload.py b/prismedia_upload.py
index 4d9ec53..5c7c99f 100755
--- a/prismedia_upload.py
+++ b/prismedia_upload.py
@@ -223,7 +223,6 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
         '--version': bool
     })
 
-    utils.decodeArgumentStrings(options, locale.getpreferredencoding())
     options = utils.parseNFO(options)
 
     if not options.get('--thumbnail'):