From 43d6a53d7b0de7acc70d7ce67e1eb7b62add8596 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Ralston <>
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 22:21:55 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] renderContents as unicode

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/chm/metadata.py | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/chm/metadata.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/chm/metadata.py
index 2f0c246d10..d6a1d24024 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/chm/metadata.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/chm/metadata.py
@@ -15,10 +15,7 @@ from calibre.utils.logging import default_log
 from calibre.ptempfile import TemporaryFile
 
 def _clean(s):
-    try:
-        return s.replace(u'\u00a0', u' ')
-    except UnicodeDecodeError:
-        return u""
+    return s.replace(u'\u00a0', u' ')
 
 def _detag(tag):
     str = u""