diff --git a/Qalbum.py b/Qalbum.py
index feec040..0c0ef8e 100755
--- a/Qalbum.py
+++ b/Qalbum.py
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ def getinfo(path):
     if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(path,'info.txt')):
         return ''
     reader = open(os.path.join(path,'info.txt'),'r')    
-    return unicode(reader.read(),encoding="utf8").encode('ascii','xmlcharrefreplace')
+    return unicode(reader.read(),encoding="utf8",errors="ignore").encode('ascii','xmlcharrefreplace')
 
 def crumblinks(crumbs):
     ''' Create the HTML string for crumb trails '''