diff -r 81d6679d50d0 -r 301d738b1181 lib/utils.py
--- a/lib/utils.py	Thu Jan 31 17:28:02 2008 +0000
+++ b/lib/utils.py	Thu Jan 31 17:58:03 2008 +0000
@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@
 
     return data
 
+def fuzzyDecode (bytes) :
+    try :
+        return bytes.decode('utf8')
+    except UnicodeDecodeError :
+        return bytes.decode('latin1', 'replace')
+
 def readTitleDescr (path) :
     """
         Read a title.txt or <imgname>.txt file
@@ -52,10 +58,12 @@
             title, descr = content.split('---', 1)
         else :
             title, descr = content, ''
+        
+        title, descr = fuzzyDecode(title), fuzzyDecode(descr)
 
         return title.strip(), descr.strip()
 
-    return "", ""
+    return u"", u""
 
 def url (*parts, **kwargs) :
     abs = kwargs.pop('abs', False)