From 933d4d3ffaff2470710c4996a0f457a57536334c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Valentin Lorentz <progval@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:29:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] RSS: Another attempt at fixing encoding issues.

---
 plugins/RSS/plugin.py | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/plugins/RSS/plugin.py b/plugins/RSS/plugin.py
index 7807f4b70..6a1959021 100644
--- a/plugins/RSS/plugin.py
+++ b/plugins/RSS/plugin.py
@@ -150,14 +150,22 @@ class RSS(callbacks.Plugin):
                 if headline[2]:
                     pubDate = ' [%s]' % (headline[2],)
             if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
+                try:
+                    import charade.universaldetector
+                    u = charade.universaldetector.UniversalDetector()
+                    u.feed(s)
+                    u.close()
+                    encoding = u.result['encoding']
+                except ImportError:
+                    encoding = 'utf8'
                 if isinstance(headline[0], unicode):
                     newheadlines.append(format('%s %u%s',
-                                                headline[0].encode('utf-8','replace'),
+                                                headline[0].encode(encoding,'replace'),
                                                 link,
                                                 pubDate))
                 else:
                     newheadlines.append(format('%s %u%s',
-                                                headline[0].decode('utf-8','replace'),
+                                                headline[0]
                                                 link,
                                                 pubDate))
             else: