From 9f01f0b1264a9313699ff18606dd3550f40f304a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Ralston <>
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 11:55:20 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] catch UnicodeDecodeError exception

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

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/chm/metadata.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/chm/metadata.py
index 7386d54658..0ce1f0b07f 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/chm/metadata.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/chm/metadata.py
@@ -15,7 +15,10 @@ from calibre.utils.logging import default_log
 from calibre.ptempfile import TemporaryFile
 
 def _clean(s):
-    return s.replace(u'\u00a0', u' ')
+    try:
+        return s.replace(u'\u00a0', u' ')
+    except UnicodeDecodeError:
+        return u""
 
 def _detag(tag):
     str = u""