diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 23e2230..8a079b9 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+mintmenu (5.2.4) katya; urgency=low
+  
+  * Improvements in Unicode support
+  
+ -- Clement Lefebvre <root@linuxmint.com>  Tue,  27 Sep 2011 14:14:00 +0000
+
 mintmenu (5.2.3) katya; urgency=low
   
   * Fix for applications with no comments/generic_names in favorites
diff --git a/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/plugins/easybuttons.py b/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/plugins/easybuttons.py
index e3f0452..e0e9840 100755
--- a/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/plugins/easybuttons.py
+++ b/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/plugins/easybuttons.py
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ class ApplicationLauncher( easyButton ):
 
     def strip_accents(self, string):
         import unicodedata
-        return unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', unicode(string)).encode('ASCII', 'ignore')
+        return unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', unicode(string)).encode('UTF8', 'ignore')
 
 
     def getTooltip( self ):