diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 05b3db453..34a900d49 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2012-02-21  Wolfgang Sourdeau  <wsourdeau@inverse.ca>
 
+	* SoObjects/SOGo/SOGoSQLUserProfile.m (-fetchJSONProfileFromDB):
+	removed an escaping hack for Oracle that should no longer be
+	required after the recent fixes in the Oracle adaptor, and which
+	was causing bad unescaping of double-escaped backslashes.
+
 	* Tests/Unit/TestSBJsonParser.m (-test_parseJSONString): added a
 	line for escaped characters.
 
diff --git a/SoObjects/SOGo/SOGoSQLUserProfile.m b/SoObjects/SOGo/SOGoSQLUserProfile.m
index 1335e1496..5172896a7 100644
--- a/SoObjects/SOGo/SOGoSQLUserProfile.m
+++ b/SoObjects/SOGo/SOGoSQLUserProfile.m
@@ -134,12 +134,7 @@ static EOAttribute *textColumn = nil;
           defFlags.isNew = (row == nil);
 
           value = [row objectForKey: fieldName];
-          if ([value isNotNull])
-            /* The following enables the restitution of coded unicode (\U1234)
-               characters with the Oracle adaptor. */
-            value = [value stringByReplacingString: @"\\\\"
-                                        withString: @"\\"];
-          else
+          if (![value isNotNull])
             value = nil; /* we discard any NSNull instance */
         }