diff -r 6e1676fcaf82 webtranslate/pages/string_edit.py
--- a/webtranslate/pages/string_edit.py	Mon May 25 14:44:18 2015 +0200
+++ b/webtranslate/pages/string_edit.py	Mon May 25 15:55:40 2015 +0200
@@ -464,6 +464,7 @@
 
     pmd, bchg, lng, binfo = parms
 
+    request.forms.recode_unicode = False # Allow Unicode input
     request_forms = request.forms.decode() # Convert dict to Unicode.
 
     base_str = request_forms.get('base') # Base text translated against in the form.