From 901192ec1805644a214ea56ad68ac383dce13742 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Kurtovic <ben.kurtovic@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 19:08:51 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Handle errors from UnicodeDamnit.

---
 earwigbot/wiki/copyvios/parsers.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/earwigbot/wiki/copyvios/parsers.py b/earwigbot/wiki/copyvios/parsers.py
index d3d121b..0cb0a68 100644
--- a/earwigbot/wiki/copyvios/parsers.py
+++ b/earwigbot/wiki/copyvios/parsers.py
@@ -223,7 +223,8 @@ class _PlainTextParser(_BaseTextParser):
 
     def parse(self):
         """Unicode-ify and strip whitespace from the plain text document."""
-        return bs4.UnicodeDammit(self.text).unicode_markup.strip()
+        converted = bs4.UnicodeDammit(self.text).unicode_markup
+        return converted.strip() if converted else ""
 
 
 _CONTENT_TYPES = {