From 61a859f3174967f7f4c27c595098c6b79312d541 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Helmut Merz <helmutm@cy55.de>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:26:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fall back to ISO encoding if UTF-8 gives an error

---
 util.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/util.py b/util.py
index 9a14469..b02bce9 100644
--- a/util.py
+++ b/util.py
@@ -77,7 +77,10 @@ def nl2br(text):
 
 def toUnicode(value, encoding='UTF-8'):
     if type(value) is not unicode:
-        return value.decode(encoding)
+        try:
+            return value.decode(encoding)
+        except UnicodeDecodeError:
+            return value.decode('ISO8859-15')
     else:
         return value