diff --git a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/tools/quotes-upload.tt b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/tools/quotes-upload.tt
index 21fa005afe..827cbd471d 100644
--- a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/tools/quotes-upload.tt
+++ b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en/modules/tools/quotes-upload.tt
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@
             contentType : "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", // we must claim this mimetype or CGI will not decode the URL encoding
             dataType    : "json",
             data        : {
-                            "quote"     : JSON.stringify(oTable.fnGetData()),
+                            "quote"     : encodeURI ( JSON.stringify(oTable.fnGetData()) ),
                             "action"    : "add",
                           },
             success     : function(){
diff --git a/tools/quotes/quotes-upload_ajax.pl b/tools/quotes/quotes-upload_ajax.pl
index 179c645c1a..727280c9e7 100755
--- a/tools/quotes/quotes-upload_ajax.pl
+++ b/tools/quotes/quotes-upload_ajax.pl
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ use warnings;
 
 use CGI qw ( -utf8 );
 use JSON;
+use URI::Escape;
 use autouse 'Data::Dumper' => qw(Dumper);
 
 use C4::Auth;
@@ -40,8 +41,9 @@ unless ($status eq "ok") {
 }
 
 my $success = 'true';
+my $quotes_tmp = uri_unescape( $cgi->param('quote' ) );
+my $quotes = decode_json( $quotes_tmp );
 
-my $quotes = decode_json($cgi->param('quote'));
 my $action = $cgi->param('action');
 
 my $sth = $dbh->prepare('INSERT INTO quotes (source, text) VALUES (?, ?);');