diff --git a/lib/WebGUI/Search/Index.pm b/lib/WebGUI/Search/Index.pm
index e25b1ba9a..4a20faea0 100644
--- a/lib/WebGUI/Search/Index.pm
+++ b/lib/WebGUI/Search/Index.pm
@@ -84,7 +84,6 @@ sub addKeywords {
 
 	$text = WebGUI::HTML::filter($text, "all");
 	#-------------------- added by zxp for chinese word segment
-	utf8::decode($text);
 	my @segs = split /([A-z|\d]+|\S)/, $text;
 	$text = join " ",@segs;
 	$text =~ s/\s{2,}/ /g;