1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/OpenSim/Data/MySQL/MySQLGridData.cs b/OpenSim/Data/MySQL/MySQLGridData.cs
index df52ae0..e830133 100644
--- a/OpenSim/Data/MySQL/MySQLGridData.cs
+++ b/OpenSim/Data/MySQL/MySQLGridData.cs
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ namespace OpenSim.Data.MySQL
         public bool AuthenticateSim(LLUUID uuid, ulong handle, string authhash, string challenge)
         {
             SHA512Managed HashProvider = new SHA512Managed();
-            ASCIIEncoding TextProvider = new ASCIIEncoding();
+            Encoding TextProvider = new UTF8Encoding();
 
             byte[] stream = TextProvider.GetBytes(uuid.ToString() + ":" + handle.ToString() + ":" + challenge);
             byte[] hash = HashProvider.ComputeHash(stream);