diff --git a/src/mibew/install/dbperform.php b/src/mibew/install/dbperform.php
index 6545614e..026ae192 100644
--- a/src/mibew/install/dbperform.php
+++ b/src/mibew/install/dbperform.php
@@ -63,9 +63,7 @@ if ($act == "silentcreateall") {
 	mysql_query("CREATE DATABASE $mysqldb", $link) or show_install_err(' Query failed: ' . mysql_error($link));
 } else {
 	mysql_select_db($mysqldb, $link) or show_install_err('Could not select database');
-	if ($force_charset_in_connection) {
-		mysql_query("SET character set utf8", $link);
-	}
+	mysql_query("SET character set utf8", $link);
 
 	if ($act == "ct") {
 		$curr_tables = get_tables($link);
diff --git a/src/mibew/install/index.php b/src/mibew/install/index.php
index 592adb99..db7d21f5 100644
--- a/src/mibew/install/index.php
+++ b/src/mibew/install/index.php
@@ -198,12 +198,11 @@ function check_connection()
 
 function check_database($link)
 {
-	global $mysqldb, $force_charset_in_connection, $page;
+	global $mysqldb, $page;
 	if (mysql_select_db($mysqldb, $link)) {
 		$page['done'][] = getlocal2("install.2.db_exists", array($mysqldb));
-		if ($force_charset_in_connection) {
-			mysql_query("SET character set utf8", $link);
-		}
+		mysql_query("SET character set utf8", $link);
+
 		return true;
 	} else {
 		$page['nextstep'] = getlocal2("install.2.create", array($mysqldb));
diff --git a/src/mibew/libs/classes/Mibew/Database.php b/src/mibew/libs/classes/Mibew/Database.php
index a50f6a06..84b4f6fd 100644
--- a/src/mibew/libs/classes/Mibew/Database.php
+++ b/src/mibew/libs/classes/Mibew/Database.php
@@ -71,24 +71,6 @@ class Database
      */
     protected $tablesPrefix = '';
 
-    /**
-     * Database connection encoding. Is used only if
-     * Database::$forceCharsetInConnection is set to true.
-     * @var string
-     *
-     * @see Database::$forceCharsetInConnection
-     */
-    protected $dbEncoding = 'utf8';
-
-    /**
-     * Determine if connection must be forced to charset, specified in
-     * Database::$dbEncoding
-     * @var boolean
-     *
-     * @see Database::$dbEncoding
-     */
-    protected $forceCharsetInConnection = true;
-
     /**
      * Determine if connection to the database must be persistent
      * @var type
@@ -156,20 +138,8 @@ class Database
      *   database or not.
      * @param string $db Database name.
      * @param string $prefix Database tables prefix
-     * @param boolean $force_charset Control force charset in conection or not.
-     * @param string $encoding Contains connection encoding. Is used only if
-     *   $force_charset is equals to TRUE.
      */
-    public static function initialize(
-        $host,
-        $user,
-        $pass,
-        $use_pconn,
-        $db,
-        $prefix,
-        $force_charset = false,
-        $encoding = 'utf8'
-    ) {
+    public static function initialize($host, $user, $pass, $use_pconn, $db, $prefix) {
         // Check PDO
         if (!extension_loaded('PDO')) {
             throw new \Exception('PDO extension is not loaded');
@@ -192,9 +162,7 @@ class Database
         $instance->dbLogin = $user;
         $instance->dbPass = $pass;
         $instance->dbName = $db;
-        $instance->dbEncoding = $encoding;
         $instance->tablesPrefix = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9_$]/', '', $prefix);
-        $instance->forceCharsetInConnection = $force_charset;
         $instance->usePersistentConnection = $use_pconn;
 
         // Create PDO object
@@ -205,9 +173,8 @@ class Database
             array(\PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT => $instance->usePersistentConnection)
         );
 
-        if ($instance->forceCharsetInConnection) {
-            $instance->dbh->exec("SET NAMES " . $instance->dbh->quote($instance->dbEncoding));
-        }
+        // Force charset in all connections
+        $instance->dbh->exec("SET NAMES utf8");
 
         // Store instance
         self::$instance = $instance;
diff --git a/src/mibew/libs/default_config.php b/src/mibew/libs/default_config.php
index 4d8f8275..c3c3227f 100644
--- a/src/mibew/libs/default_config.php
+++ b/src/mibew/libs/default_config.php
@@ -36,8 +36,6 @@ $mysqllogin = "";
 $mysqlpass = "";
 $mysqlprefix = "";
 
-$force_charset_in_connection = true;
-
 $use_persistent_connection = false;
 
 /*
diff --git a/src/mibew/libs/init.php b/src/mibew/libs/init.php
index 5ab4022d..cb836ff1 100644
--- a/src/mibew/libs/init.php
+++ b/src/mibew/libs/init.php
@@ -80,9 +80,7 @@ session_start();
     $mysqlpass,
     $use_persistent_connection,
     $mysqldb,
-    $mysqlprefix,
-    $force_charset_in_connection,
-    'utf8'
+    $mysqlprefix
 );
 
 if (function_exists("date_default_timezone_set")) {