diff --git a/src/utils/web.py b/src/utils/web.py
index 4a0945727..b51da9679 100644
--- a/src/utils/web.py
+++ b/src/utils/web.py
@@ -191,14 +191,16 @@ def htmlToText(s, tagReplace=' '):
     """
     try:
         import chardet.universaldetector
-    except ImportError:
-        if sys.version_info[0] < 3 or isinstance(s, bytes):
-            s = s.decode('utf8')
-    else:
         u = chardet.universaldetector.UniversalDetector()
         u.feed(s)
         u.close()
         s = s.decode(u.result['encoding'])
+    except:
+        try:
+            if sys.version_info[0] < 3 or isinstance(s, bytes):
+                s = s.decode('utf8')
+        except:
+            pass
     x = HtmlToText(tagReplace)
     x.feed(s)
     return x.getText()