lib/simple-rss.rb in simple-rss-1.3.0 vs lib/simple-rss.rb in simple-rss-1.3.1

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 require 'cgi'
 require 'time'
 
 class SimpleRSS
-  VERSION = "1.3.0"
+  VERSION = "1.3.1"
   
 	attr_reader :items, :source
 	alias :entries :items
 
 	@@feed_tags = [
@@ -150,10 +150,10 @@
 	def clean_tag(tag)
 		tag.to_s.gsub(':','_').intern
 	end
 	
   def unescape(content)
-  	if content.force_encoding("binary") =~ /([^-_.!~*'()a-zA-Z\d;\/?:@&=+$,\[\]]%)/n then
+  	if content.respond_to?(:force_encoding) && content.force_encoding("binary") =~ /([^-_.!~*'()a-zA-Z\d;\/?:@&=+$,\[\]]%)/n then
   		CGI.unescape(content).gsub(/(<!\[CDATA\[|\]\]>)/,'').strip
   	else
   		content.gsub(/(<!\[CDATA\[|\]\]>)/,'').strip
   	end
   end