diff --git a/user_personal.php b/user_personal.php
index 71b34ce..ac01d9d 100644
--- a/user_personal.php
+++ b/user_personal.php
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ case 'save':
  	$save = true;
  	/* Set values */
 	foreach($fields as $f) {
-		$u[$f] = stripslashes($_POST[$f]);
+		$u[$f] = iconv("UTF-8","ISO-8859-1",stripslashes($_POST[$f]));
 		/* Allow the user to clear a field regardless of regex */
 		if($u[$f] == '') continue;
 
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ case 'save':
 
 	if($save == true) {
 		user_save($u);
-		happy_("%1 %2 successfully updated",array($_POST['firstname'],$_POST['lastname']));
+		happy_("%1 %2 successfully updated",array($u['firstname'],$u['lastname']));
 	} 
 
 	//reload the user record because we dont know if we saved or didnt save above, we just want