diff --git a/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl b/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl
index 4e829b116b..a19cfc0394 100755
--- a/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl
+++ b/cataloguing/addbiblio.pl
@@ -497,7 +497,9 @@ if ($op eq "addbiblio") {
 	{
 		$biblionumber= "";
 	}
- 
+	#FIXME: it's kind of silly to go from MARC::Record to MARC::File::XML and then back again just to fix the encoding
+    my $uxml = $record->as_xml;
+    my $urecord = MARC::Record::new_from_xml($uxml, 'UTF-8'); 
 	build_tabs ($template, $record, $dbh,$encoding);
 	build_hidden_data;
 	$template->param(