--- a/hgext/convert/common.py
+++ b/hgext/convert/common.py
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ class converter_source(object):
def recode(self, s, encoding=None):
if not encoding:
encoding = self.encoding or 'utf-8'
-
+
try:
return s.decode(encoding).encode("utf-8")
except: