From 6e6fd58ea7061b327e8145f1fa4d43fe3c221a3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Valentin Lorentz <progval@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 17:24:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix RSS encoding problem

---
 plugins/RSS/plugin.py | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/plugins/RSS/plugin.py b/plugins/RSS/plugin.py
index fbf442e37..eb0c7af11 100644
--- a/plugins/RSS/plugin.py
+++ b/plugins/RSS/plugin.py
@@ -264,8 +264,12 @@ class RSS(callbacks.Plugin):
     def _getConverter(self, feed):
         toText = utils.web.htmlToText
         if 'encoding' in feed:
-            return lambda s: toText(s).strip().encode(feed['encoding'],
-                                                      'replace')
+            def conv(s):
+                try:
+                    return toText(s).strip().encode(feed['encoding'],'replace')
+                except UnicodeEncodeError:
+                    return toText(s.encode('utf-8', 'ignore')).strip()
+            return conv
         else:
             return lambda s: toText(s).strip()