diff --git a/application/controllers/Adif.php b/application/controllers/Adif.php
index 5dde10b1..4907a592 100644
--- a/application/controllers/Adif.php
+++ b/application/controllers/Adif.php
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ class adif extends CI_Controller {
 		if(!$this->user_model->authorize(2)) { $this->session->set_flashdata('notice', 'You\'re not allowed to do that!'); redirect('dashboard'); }
 	}
 
+
 	/* Shows Export Views */
 	public function export() {
 
diff --git a/application/libraries/Adif_parser.php b/application/libraries/Adif_parser.php
index fbf711ae..a7a560bd 100644
--- a/application/libraries/Adif_parser.php
+++ b/application/libraries/Adif_parser.php
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ class ADIF_Parser
 	
 	public function load_from_file($fname) //allows the user to accept a filename as input
 	{
-		$this->data = file_get_contents($fname);
+		$this->data = $string = mb_convert_encoding(file_get_contents($fname), "UTF-8");
 	}
 	
 	//the following function does the processing of the array into its key and value pairs
diff --git a/application/models/Logbook_model.php b/application/models/Logbook_model.php
index 12fbc01b..253efa0a 100755
--- a/application/models/Logbook_model.php
+++ b/application/models/Logbook_model.php
@@ -877,6 +877,7 @@ class Logbook_model extends CI_Model {
     function import($record) {
         $CI =& get_instance();
         $CI->load->library('frequency');
+
         // Join date+time
 
         $time_on = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($record['qso_date'])) ." ".date('H:i', strtotime($record['time_on']));