diff --git a/docs/HISTORY.txt b/docs/HISTORY.txt
index 86dc3e9..a14647c 100644
--- a/docs/HISTORY.txt
+++ b/docs/HISTORY.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+2.4 - (2022-11-15)
+---------------------------
+* Change: Restore old encoding for restapi
+  [iulianpetchesi refs #153129]
+
 2.3 - (2022-11-14)
 ---------------------------
 * Change: Rename controlpanel id to avoid conflicts with plone.formwidget.geolocation
diff --git a/eea/geolocation/restapi/get.py b/eea/geolocation/restapi/get.py
index 307e0cb..f3a90b6 100644
--- a/eea/geolocation/restapi/get.py
+++ b/eea/geolocation/restapi/get.py
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ def reply(self):
             vocabulary = taxonomy.makeVocabulary('en')
 
         for value, key in vocabulary.iterEntries():
-            value = value.encode('latin-1', 'ignore').decode('latin-1')
+            value = value.encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('ascii')
 
             if identifier not in value:
                 identifier = value
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ def reply(self):
 
         data = {}
         for value, key in vocabulary.iterEntries():
-            value = value.encode('latin-1', 'ignore').decode('latin-1')
+            value = value.encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('ascii')
 
             if identifier not in value:
                 identifier = value
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ def reply(self):
             vocabulary = taxonomy.makeVocabulary('en')
 
         for value, key in vocabulary.iterEntries():
-            value = value.encode('latin-1', 'ignore').decode('latin-1')
+            value = value.encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('ascii')
 
             if identifier not in value:
                 identifier = value
diff --git a/eea/geolocation/version.txt b/eea/geolocation/version.txt
index bb576db..6b4950e 100644
--- a/eea/geolocation/version.txt
+++ b/eea/geolocation/version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.3
+2.4