diff --git a/src/librssguard/core/message.cpp b/src/librssguard/core/message.cpp
index 35ec3e920..606eb2408 100644
--- a/src/librssguard/core/message.cpp
+++ b/src/librssguard/core/message.cpp
@@ -70,10 +70,6 @@ Message::Message() {
 }
 
 void Message::sanitize() {
-  // Also, make sure that HTML encoding, encoding of special characters, etc., is fixed.
-  m_contents = QUrl::fromPercentEncoding(m_contents.toUtf8());
-  m_author = m_author.toUtf8();
-
   // Sanitize title.
   m_title = m_title