diff --git a/commons/pom.xml b/commons/pom.xml
index 896b62db0..3730eb707 100644
--- a/commons/pom.xml
+++ b/commons/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
       <dependency>
           <groupId>org.mediawiki</groupId>
           <artifactId>api</artifactId>
-          <version>1.2</version>
+          <version>1.3</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
           <groupId>com.actionbarsherlock</groupId>
diff --git a/commons/src/main/java/org/wikimedia/commons/EventLog.java b/commons/src/main/java/org/wikimedia/commons/EventLog.java
index 6b50915c3..e027f55bc 100644
--- a/commons/src/main/java/org/wikimedia/commons/EventLog.java
+++ b/commons/src/main/java/org/wikimedia/commons/EventLog.java
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import android.os.AsyncTask;
 import android.os.Build;
 import android.text.TextUtils;
 import de.akquinet.android.androlog.Log;
+import org.apache.http.client.utils.URLEncodedUtils;
 import org.json.JSONException;
 import org.json.JSONObject;
 
diff --git a/commons/src/main/java/org/wikimedia/commons/Utils.java b/commons/src/main/java/org/wikimedia/commons/Utils.java
index 6ffd1661c..d45b0001c 100644
--- a/commons/src/main/java/org/wikimedia/commons/Utils.java
+++ b/commons/src/main/java/org/wikimedia/commons/Utils.java
@@ -12,10 +12,7 @@ import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;
 import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
 import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
 import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactoryConfigurationError;
-import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.StringWriter;
+import java.io.*;
 import java.text.ParseException;
 import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
 import java.util.Date;
@@ -96,8 +93,8 @@ public class Utils {
 
     public static String urlEncode(String url) {
         try {
-            return urlCodec.encode(url);
-        } catch (EncoderException e) {
+            return urlCodec.encode(url, "utf-8");
+        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
             throw new RuntimeException(e);
         }
     }