diff --git a/core/views/expo.py b/core/views/expo.py
index 1fd01e5..6b98984 100644
--- a/core/views/expo.py
+++ b/core/views/expo.py
@@ -128,15 +128,15 @@ def expowebpage(request, expowebpath, path):
     try:
         with open(os.path.normpath(expowebpath / path), "r") as o:   
             html = o.read()
-    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' )
+    # 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' )
    
     m = re.search(r'(.*)<\s*head([^>]*)>(.*)<\s*/head\s*>(.*)<\s*body([^>]*)>(.*)<\s*/body\s*>(.*)', html, re.DOTALL + re.IGNORECASE)
     if m: