diff --git a/orcid-disambiguation/requirements.txt b/orcid-disambiguation/requirements.txt
index 2a2c5e9..54d013d 100644
--- a/orcid-disambiguation/requirements.txt
+++ b/orcid-disambiguation/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 pandas
 requests
 plac
-ftfy 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/orcid-disambiguation/v1/orcidDisambiguation.ini b/orcid-disambiguation/v1/orcidDisambiguation.ini
index ef8931b..b99bf30 100644
--- a/orcid-disambiguation/v1/orcidDisambiguation.ini
+++ b/orcid-disambiguation/v1/orcidDisambiguation.ini
@@ -30,8 +30,7 @@
 plugin = @ezs/analytics
 
 [JSONParse]
-legacy = false
-separator = $
+separator = *
 
 [expand]
 path = env('path', 'value')
diff --git a/orcid-disambiguation/v1/orcidDisambiguation.py b/orcid-disambiguation/v1/orcidDisambiguation.py
index af639ad..62639d6 100644
--- a/orcid-disambiguation/v1/orcidDisambiguation.py
+++ b/orcid-disambiguation/v1/orcidDisambiguation.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 import sys
 import json
 import plac
-from ftfy import fix_encoding
 
 @plac.annotations(
     nameDepth = ("Maximum number of people to check" ,"option", "p", int ),
@@ -12,7 +11,6 @@
 
 def main(nameDepth = 20, worksDepth = 20):
     for line in sys.stdin:
-        line = fix_encoding(line)
         data = json.loads(line)
         infos = data['value']
         info = infos[0].copy()