diff --git a/apps/rss_feeds/page_importer.py b/apps/rss_feeds/page_importer.py
index 6df42284b..5b50328df 100644
--- a/apps/rss_feeds/page_importer.py
+++ b/apps/rss_feeds/page_importer.py
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ class PageImporter(object):
         if response.encoding and response.encoding != 'utf-8':
             try:
                 data = data.encode(response.encoding)
-            except LookupError:
+            except (LookupError, UnicodeEncodeError):
                 pass
 
         if data:
diff --git a/apps/rss_feeds/text_importer.py b/apps/rss_feeds/text_importer.py
index 5f44d3dcd..e97abf1d9 100644
--- a/apps/rss_feeds/text_importer.py
+++ b/apps/rss_feeds/text_importer.py
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ class TextImporter:
         if resp.encoding and resp.encoding != 'utf-8':
             try:
                 text = text.encode(resp.encoding)
-            except LookupError:
+            except (LookupError, UnicodeEncodeError):
                 pass
 
         if text:
diff --git a/fabfile.py b/fabfile.py
index 71e441ebe..50132bd27 100644
--- a/fabfile.py
+++ b/fabfile.py
@@ -505,6 +505,17 @@ def pip():
         run('pip install --upgrade pip')
         run('pip install -r requirements.txt')
         sudo('swapoff /swapfile')
+
+def solo_pip(role):
+    if role == "app":
+        gunicorn_stop()
+        pip()
+        deploy_code(reload=True)
+    elif role == "task":
+        celery_stop()
+        copy_task_settings()
+        pip()
+        celery()
     
 # PIL - Only if python-imaging didn't install through apt-get, like on Mac OS X.
 def setup_imaging():