diff --git a/docs/changelog/7.x.x.txt b/docs/changelog/7.x.x.txt
index e212edb79..41a100fca 100644
--- a/docs/changelog/7.x.x.txt
+++ b/docs/changelog/7.x.x.txt
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
  - fixed #11798: Gallery request non existent image
  - fixed #11800: Group to view for new events defaults to 'Everyone'
  - fixed #11796: Gallery Drag & Drop broken in IE 7
+ - fixed #11795: Wrong display UTF8 chars in Syndicated content (#12621)
 
 7.9.12
  - webgui.org homepage gives 404  (#11778)
diff --git a/lib/WebGUI/Asset/Wobject/SyndicatedContent.pm b/lib/WebGUI/Asset/Wobject/SyndicatedContent.pm
index b0559f0a3..027cdcd98 100644
--- a/lib/WebGUI/Asset/Wobject/SyndicatedContent.pm
+++ b/lib/WebGUI/Asset/Wobject/SyndicatedContent.pm
@@ -162,10 +162,6 @@ sub generateFeed {
                 }
             }, $self->cacheTimeout );
 
-        # if the content can be downgraded, it is either valid latin1 or didn't have
-        # an HTTP Content-Encoding header.  In the second case, XML::FeedPP will take
-        # care of any encoding specified in the XML prolog
-        utf8::downgrade($value, 1);
         eval {
             my $singleFeed = XML::FeedPP->new($value, utf8_flag => 1, -type => 'string', xml_deref => 1, %opt);
             $feed->merge_channel($singleFeed);
diff --git a/t/Asset/Wobject/SyndicatedContent/encodings.t b/t/Asset/Wobject/SyndicatedContent/encodings.t
index b84eca499..29804f44e 100644
--- a/t/Asset/Wobject/SyndicatedContent/encodings.t
+++ b/t/Asset/Wobject/SyndicatedContent/encodings.t
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../../../lib";
 use WebGUI::Test;
 use Test::More; # increment this value for each test you create
 use WebGUI::Session;
-plan skip_all => 'set TEST_ENCODINGS to enable this test' unless $ENV{TEST_ENCODINGS};
 plan tests    => 13; # increment this value for each test you create
 use Test::Deep;
 use WebGUI::Asset::Wobject::SyndicatedContent;
@@ -103,6 +102,7 @@ is $syndicated_content->generateFeed->title, $es_title, 'No encoding in prolog,
 
 $cache->set($iso_8859_1, 60);
 is $syndicated_content->generateFeed->title, $es_title, 'ISO-8859-1 encoded';
+
 $cache->set($iso_8859_5, 60);
 is $syndicated_content->generateFeed->title, $ru_title, 'ISO-8859-5 encoded';