From 759ca69205d6caaa3176e14a123d89fdd57c7edf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:11:41 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #2041 (Error fetching news la repubblica on MacOSX)

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/BeautifulSoup.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/BeautifulSoup.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/BeautifulSoup.py
index 24cd5fe3dd..cb2fe950fd 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/BeautifulSoup.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/BeautifulSoup.py
@@ -1306,7 +1306,10 @@ class BeautifulStoneSoup(Tag, SGMLParser):
         if self.convertEntities:
             if ref.lower().startswith('x'): #
                 ref = int(ref[1:], 16)      # Added by Kovid to handle hex numeric entities
-            data = unichr(int(ref))
+            try:
+                data = unichr(int(ref))
+            except ValueError: # Bad numerical entity. Added by Kovid
+                data = u'' 
         else:
             data = '&#%s;' % ref
         self.handle_data(data)