diff --git a/admin/award_awards.php b/admin/award_awards.php
index a12c2c0..32c15e1 100644
--- a/admin/award_awards.php
+++ b/admin/award_awards.php
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@
  case 'prize_save':
 	$id = intval($_POST['id']);
 	$q="UPDATE award_prizes SET 
-				prize='".mysql_escape_string(stripslashes("UTF-8","ISO-8859-1",$_POST['prize']))."', 
+				prize='".mysql_escape_string(stripslashes($_POST['prize']))."', 
 				cash='".intval($_POST['cash'])."',
 				scholarship='".intval($_POST['scholarship'])."',
 				value='".intval($_POST['value'])."',