Removed ensureUTF8 filter. It's no longer required.

app/controllers/application.rb

@@ -60,14 +60,6 @@ class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
 
   private  
 
-    # Ensures the HTTP content-type encoding is set to "UTF-8" for "text/html" contents.
-    def ensureUTF8
-      content_type = headers["Content-Type"] || "text/html"
-      if /^text\//.match(content_type)
-        headers["Content-Type"] = "#{content_type}; charset=utf-8"
-      end
-    end  
-
     def authenticate(role = 'any')
       # Attempt to retrieve authenticated user from controller instance or session...
       if !(user = current_user)