diff --git a/classes/feedparser.php b/classes/feedparser.php
index bd67ca39..6b84e59c 100644
--- a/classes/feedparser.php
+++ b/classes/feedparser.php
@@ -17,7 +17,22 @@ class FeedParser {
 		libxml_clear_errors();
 		$this->doc = new DOMDocument();
 		$this->doc->loadXML($data);
-		$this->error = $this->format_error(libxml_get_last_error());
+
+		$error = libxml_get_last_error();
+
+		if ($error && $error->code == 9) {
+			libxml_clear_errors();
+
+			// we might want to try guessing input encoding here too
+			$data = iconv("UTF-8", "UTF-8//IGNORE", $data);
+
+			$this->doc = new DOMDocument();
+			$this->doc->loadXML($data);
+
+			$error = libxml_get_last_error();
+		}
+
+		$this->error = $this->format_error($error);
 		libxml_clear_errors();
 
 		$this->items = array();
diff --git a/include/rssfuncs.php b/include/rssfuncs.php
index 612c914c..e7c9f57d 100644
--- a/include/rssfuncs.php
+++ b/include/rssfuncs.php
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@
 
 				_debug("fetch done.", $debug_enabled);
 
-				if ($feed_data) {
+				/* if ($feed_data) {
 					$error = verify_feed_xml($feed_data);
 
 					if ($error) {
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@
 							if ($error) $feed_data = '';
 						}
 					}
-				}
+				} */
 			}
 
 			if (!$feed_data) {
@@ -1349,14 +1349,14 @@
 			mb_strtolower(strip_tags($title), 'utf-8'));
 	}
 
-	function verify_feed_xml($feed_data) {
+	/* function verify_feed_xml($feed_data) {
 		libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
 		$doc = new DOMDocument();
 		$doc->loadXML($feed_data);
 		$error = libxml_get_last_error();
 		libxml_clear_errors();
 		return $error;
-	}
+	} */
 
 	function housekeeping_common($debug) {
 		expire_cached_files($debug);