diff --git a/app/models/changeset.rb b/app/models/changeset.rb
index 0ed5e166..3bd26b11 100644
--- a/app/models/changeset.rb
+++ b/app/models/changeset.rb
@@ -191,6 +191,11 @@ class Changeset < ActiveRecord::Base
       end
     end
     # removes invalid UTF8 sequences
-    Iconv.conv('UTF-8//IGNORE', 'UTF-8', str + '  ')[0..-3]
+    begin
+      Iconv.conv('UTF-8//IGNORE', 'UTF-8', str + '  ')[0..-3]
+    rescue Iconv::InvalidEncoding
+      # "UTF-8//IGNORE" is not supported on some OS
+      str
+    end
   end
 end