--- spambayes-1.0.3/spambayes/PyMeldLite.py.orig	2003-02-01 03:32:27.000000000 +0900
+++ spambayes-1.0.3/spambayes/PyMeldLite.py	2005-02-02 19:55:24.000000000 +0900
@@ -565,14 +565,18 @@
         source = source[:match.start(1)] + match.group(2) + \
                  source[match.end(1):]
 
+    # support utf-8 (2005-02-02 by owa)
     # Map characters not allowed in XML content to sensible things.
     source = source.translate(badxml_map)
-    source = re.sub('([\x80-\xff])', replaceHighCharacters, source)
-
-    # Parse the XML and generate the tree.
-    g = _TreeGenerator()
-    g.feed(source)
-    g.close()
+    try:
+        g = _TreeGenerator()
+        g.feed(source)
+        g.close()
+    except: # may be xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError in versions 2.3 and above
+        source = re.sub('([\x80-\xff])', replaceHighCharacters, source)
+        g = _TreeGenerator()
+        g.feed(source)
+        g.close()
 
     # Get the tree and put the DOCTYPE back in if we hacked it out above.
     tree = g.getTree()