diff --git a/core/views/expo.py b/core/views/expo.py
index 0fc86e2..0ce7cdc 100644
--- a/core/views/expo.py
+++ b/core/views/expo.py
@@ -129,7 +129,11 @@ def expowebpage(request, expowebpath, path):
         with open(os.path.normpath(expowebpath / path), "r") as o:   
             html = o.read()
     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' )
+        try:
+            with open(os.path.normpath(expowebpath / path), "rb") as o:   
+            html = o.read()
+        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: