--- a/app/soc/logic/cleaning.py	Wed Mar 25 22:42:35 2009 +0000
+++ b/app/soc/logic/cleaning.py	Thu Mar 26 12:19:33 2009 +0000
@@ -352,6 +352,7 @@
     sanitizer = feedparser._HTMLSanitizer('utf-8')
     sanitizer.feed(content)
     content = sanitizer.output()
+    content = content.decode('utf-8')
     content = content.strip().replace('\r\n', '\n')
 
     return content