diff --git a/core/views/expo.py b/core/views/expo.py
index 3c092bb..1fd01e5 100644
--- a/core/views/expo.py
+++ b/core/views/expo.py
@@ -130,18 +130,13 @@ def expowebpage(request, expowebpath, path):
             html = o.read()
     except:
         try:
-            with open(os.path.normpath(expowebpath / path), "r", encoding='iso-8859-1') as o:   
-                html = o.read()
-                html = str(o.read()).replace("<h1>","<h1>ISO-8859-1 characters here - ")
+            with open(os.path.normpath(expowebpath / path), "rb") as o:   
+                html = str(o.read()).replace("<h1>","<h1>BAD NON-UTF-8 characters here - ")
+                html = html.replace("\\n","\n")
+                html = html.replace("\\t","\t")
+                html = html.replace("\\'","\'")
         except:
-            try:
-                with open(os.path.normpath(expowebpath / path), "rb") as o:   
-                    html = str(o.read()).replace("<h1>","<h1>BAD NON-UTF-8 characters here - ")
-                    html = html.replace("\\n","\n")
-                    html = html.replace("\\t","\t")
-                    html = html.replace("\\'","\'")
-            except:
-                return HttpResponse(default_head +  '<h3>UTF-8 Parsing Failure:<br>Page could not be parsed using UTF-8:<br>failure detected in expowebpage in views.expo.py</h3> Please edit this <var>:expoweb:</var> page to replace dubious umlauts and &pound; symbols with correct HTML entities e.g. <em>&amp;pound;;</em>. </body' )
+            return HttpResponse(default_head +  '<h3>UTF-8 Parsing Failure:<br>Page could not be parsed using UTF-8:<br>failure detected in expowebpage in views.expo.py</h3> Please edit this <var>:expoweb:</var> page to replace dubious umlauts and &pound; symbols with correct HTML entities e.g. <em>&amp;pound;;</em>. </body' )
    
     m = re.search(r'(.*)<\s*head([^>]*)>(.*)<\s*/head\s*>(.*)<\s*body([^>]*)>(.*)<\s*/body\s*>(.*)', html, re.DOTALL + re.IGNORECASE)
     if m: