If chardet for event name (in HTML/PDF formats) does not detect charset, assume ascii (chances are event name is simply empty)HEADmaster

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/dealconvert/formats/html.py b/dealconvert/formats/html.py
index efb16ff..6e5537e 100644
--- a/dealconvert/formats/html.py
+++ b/dealconvert/formats/html.py
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ class HTMLFormat(BinaryFormat):
     def get_html_content(self, dealset):
         deal_rows = []
         event_name = dealset[0].event
-        event_name = event_name.decode(chardet.detect(event_name)['encoding'])
+        event_name = event_name.decode(chardet.detect(event_name)['encoding'] or 'ascii')
         while len(dealset) > 0:
             deal_rows.append(dealset[0:self.deals_per_column])
             dealset = dealset[self.deals_per_column:]