diff --git a/usr/local/www/widgets/widgets/rss.widget.php b/usr/local/www/widgets/widgets/rss.widget.php
index c6920f916a..4c21a29535 100644
--- a/usr/local/www/widgets/widgets/rss.widget.php
+++ b/usr/local/www/widgets/widgets/rss.widget.php
@@ -157,7 +157,6 @@ else
 	$feed->set_cache_location("/tmp/simplepie/");
 	$feed->set_feed_url($rss_feed_s);
 	$feed->init();
-	$feed->set_output_encoding('latin-1');
 	$feed->handle_content_type();
 	$counter = 1;
 	foreach($feed->get_items() as $item) {