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diff --git a/app/controllers/api/user_preferences_controller.rb b/app/controllers/api/user_preferences_controller.rb
index 40ccfccbb..99d224c51 100644
--- a/app/controllers/api/user_preferences_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/api/user_preferences_controller.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Update and read user preferences, which are arbitrayr key/val pairs
+# Update and read user preferences, which are arbitrary key/val pairs
 module Api
   class UserPreferencesController < ApiController
     before_action :authorize
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ module Api
         pref.k = params[:preference_key]
       end
 
-      pref.v = request.raw_post.chomp
+      pref.v = request.raw_post.chomp.force_encoding("UTF-8")
       pref.save!
 
       render :plain => ""