diff --git a/lib/exception_notifier/views/exception_notifier/background_exception_notification.html.erb b/lib/exception_notifier/views/exception_notifier/background_exception_notification.html.erb
index be98f5f0..588b7f9d 100644
--- a/lib/exception_notifier/views/exception_notifier/background_exception_notification.html.erb
+++ b/lib/exception_notifier/views/exception_notifier/background_exception_notification.html.erb
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
         "#{title}\n\n#{summary.gsub(/^/, "  ")}\n\n"
       end
     end.join
-    sections = sections.force_encoding('UTF-8').encode('UTF-16LE', :invalid => :replace).encode('UTF-8') if sections.respond_to?(:force_encoding)
 %>
 <%= raw sections %>
     </pre>
diff --git a/lib/exception_notifier/views/exception_notifier/background_exception_notification.text.erb b/lib/exception_notifier/views/exception_notifier/background_exception_notification.text.erb
index 6677bc65..03688152 100644
--- a/lib/exception_notifier/views/exception_notifier/background_exception_notification.text.erb
+++ b/lib/exception_notifier/views/exception_notifier/background_exception_notification.text.erb
@@ -10,6 +10,5 @@
           "#{title}\n\n#{summary.gsub(/^/, "  ")}\n\n"
         end
       end.join
-      sections = sections.force_encoding('UTF-8').encode('UTF-16LE', :invalid => :replace).encode('UTF-8') if sections.respond_to?(:force_encoding)
   %>
   <%= raw sections %>
diff --git a/lib/exception_notifier/views/exception_notifier/exception_notification.html.erb b/lib/exception_notifier/views/exception_notifier/exception_notification.html.erb
index 3a1499df..40549a47 100644
--- a/lib/exception_notifier/views/exception_notifier/exception_notification.html.erb
+++ b/lib/exception_notifier/views/exception_notifier/exception_notification.html.erb
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
         [title, summary.gsub(/^/, "  "), nil].join("\n\n")
       end
     end.join
-    sections = sections.force_encoding('UTF-8').encode('UTF-16LE', :invalid => :replace).encode('UTF-8') if sections.respond_to?(:force_encoding)
 %>
 
 <%= raw sections %>
diff --git a/lib/exception_notifier/views/exception_notifier/exception_notification.text.erb b/lib/exception_notifier/views/exception_notifier/exception_notification.text.erb
index 065bbea3..cc8d4dc6 100644
--- a/lib/exception_notifier/views/exception_notifier/exception_notification.text.erb
+++ b/lib/exception_notifier/views/exception_notifier/exception_notification.text.erb
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
         [title, summary.gsub(/^/, "  "), nil].join("\n\n")
       end
     end.join
-    sections = sections.force_encoding('UTF-8').encode('UTF-16LE', :invalid => :replace).encode('UTF-8') if sections.respond_to?(:force_encoding)
 %>
 
 <%= raw sections %>