diff --git a/wp-trackback.php b/wp-trackback.php
index e6717102ad..a2c2d07846 100644
--- a/wp-trackback.php
+++ b/wp-trackback.php
@@ -70,7 +70,10 @@ if ( !empty($tb_url) && !empty($title) && !empty($tb_url) ) {
 	$title =  wp_specialchars( strip_tags( $title ) );
 	$title = (strlen($title) > 250) ? substr($title, 0, 250) . '...' : $title;
 	$excerpt = strip_tags($excerpt);
-	$excerpt = (strlen($excerpt) > 255) ? substr($excerpt, 0, 252) . '...' : $excerpt;
+	if ( function_exists('mb_strcut') ) // For international trackbacks
+		$excerpt = mb_strcut($excerpt, 0, 252, get_settings('blog_charset')) . '...';
+	else
+		$excerpt = (strlen($excerpt) > 255) ? substr($excerpt, 0, 252) . '...' : $excerpt;
 
 	$comment_post_ID = $tb_id;
 	$comment_author = $blog_name;