diff --git a/phpBB/docs/CHANGELOG.html b/phpBB/docs/CHANGELOG.html
index 11e900c7da..873ea9e7a9 100644
--- a/phpBB/docs/CHANGELOG.html
+++ b/phpBB/docs/CHANGELOG.html
@@ -222,6 +222,7 @@ p a {
 		<li>[Fix] Topic deletion via the user post deletion mechanism did not take into account statistics for forums that hold shadow topics (Bug #12981)</li>
 		<li>[Fix] Allow for negative and decimal numbers to be in transposed queries in the Oracle and Firebird DBAL (Bug #13033)</li>
 		<li>[Fix] Some jabber related bugs (Bug #12989, #11805, #11809)</li>
+		<li>[Fix] Added UTF-8 support for banning via the MCP (Bug #13013)</li>
 
 	</ul>
 
diff --git a/phpBB/includes/mcp/mcp_ban.php b/phpBB/includes/mcp/mcp_ban.php
index c317260a2e..f2ecbdef5b 100644
--- a/phpBB/includes/mcp/mcp_ban.php
+++ b/phpBB/includes/mcp/mcp_ban.php
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ class mcp_ban
 		{
 			 
 			// Grab the list of entries
-			$ban				= request_var('ban', '');
+			$ban				= request_var('ban', '', ($mode === 'user') true ? false);
 			$ban_len			= request_var('banlength', 0);
 			$ban_len_other		= request_var('banlengthother', '');
 			$ban_exclude		= request_var('banexclude', 0);