diff --git a/apps/documents/forms.py b/apps/documents/forms.py
index c070f71438..f0ac224ba9 100755
--- a/apps/documents/forms.py
+++ b/apps/documents/forms.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ from django.utils.http import urlencode
 from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
 from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
 from django.forms.formsets import formset_factory
-from django.utils.http import urlquote_plus
 
 from staging import StagingFile
 
@@ -197,7 +196,7 @@ class DocumentCreateWizard(BoundFormWizard):
             for id, metadata in enumerate(form.cleaned_data):
                 if metadata['value']:
                     self.urldata.append(('metadata%s_id' % id, metadata['id']))   
-                    self.urldata.append(('metadata%s_value' % id, urlquote_plus(metadata['value'])))
+                    self.urldata.append(('metadata%s_value' % id, metadata['value']))
  
     def get_template(self, step):
         return 'generic_wizard.html'
@@ -210,6 +209,3 @@ class DocumentCreateWizard(BoundFormWizard):
 
         url = reverse(view, args=[self.document_type.id])
         return HttpResponseRedirect('%s?%s' % (url, urlencode(self.urldata)))
-
-urlquote_plus
-MetadataFormSet = formset_factory(MetadataForm, extra=0)
diff --git a/apps/documents/utils.py b/apps/documents/utils.py
index f13497b521..4e33154e6d 100755
--- a/apps/documents/utils.py
+++ b/apps/documents/utils.py
@@ -97,5 +97,8 @@ def save_metadata(metadata_dict, document):
         metadata_type=get_object_or_404(MetadataType, pk=metadata_dict['id']),
     )
     #Handle 'plus sign as space' in the url
-    document_metadata.value=unquote_plus(metadata_dict['value']).decode('utf-8')
+    
+    #unquote_plus handles utf-8?!?
+    #http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4382875/handling-iri-in-django
+    document_metadata.value=unquote_plus(metadata_dict['value'])#.decode('utf-8')
     document_metadata.save()        
diff --git a/apps/documents/views.py b/apps/documents/views.py
index efffd68f28..a01a40a3d6 100755
--- a/apps/documents/views.py
+++ b/apps/documents/views.py
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ from django.conf import settings
 from django.utils.http import urlencode
 from django.template.defaultfilters import slugify
 from django.core.exceptions import ObjectDoesNotExist
-from django.utils.http import urlquote_plus
 
 from common.utils import pretty_size
 from permissions.api import check_permissions, Unauthorized
@@ -97,7 +96,7 @@ def document_create_sibling(request, document_id, multiple=True):
     for id, metadata in enumerate(document.documentmetadata_set.all()):
         if hasattr(metadata, 'value'):
             urldata.append(('metadata%s_id' % id, metadata.metadata_type.id))   
-            urldata.append(('metadata%s_value' % id, urlquote_plus(metadata.value)))
+            urldata.append(('metadata%s_value' % id, metadata.value))
         
     if multiple:
         view = 'upload_multiple_documents_with_type'