diff --git a/feed.go b/feed.go
index c393b03..5b90921 100644
--- a/feed.go
+++ b/feed.go
@@ -84,7 +84,13 @@ func New(cachetimeout int, enforcecachelimit bool, ch ChannelHandler, ih ItemHan
 // The value is in seconds.
 func (this *Feed) LastUpdate() int64 { return this.lastupdate }
 
-func (this *Feed) Fetch(uri string) (err error) {
+// Fetch retrieves the feed's latest content if necessary.
+//
+// The charset parameter overrides the xml decoder's CharsetReader.
+// This allows us to specify a custom character encoding conversion
+// routine when dealing with non-utf8 input. Supply 'nil' to use the
+// default from Go's xml package.
+func (this *Feed) Fetch(uri string, charset xmlx.CharsetFunc) (err error) {
 	if !this.CanUpdate() {
 		return
 	}
@@ -94,7 +100,8 @@ func (this *Feed) Fetch(uri string) (err error) {
 	// Extract type and version of the feed so we can have the appropriate
 	// function parse it (rss 0.91, rss 0.92, rss 2, atom etc).
 	doc := xmlx.New()
-	if err = doc.LoadUri(uri); err != nil {
+
+	if err = doc.LoadUri(uri, charset); err != nil {
 		return
 	}
 	this.Type, this.Version = this.GetVersionInfo(doc)
diff --git a/feed_test.go b/feed_test.go
index 008a3e1..9bbfa19 100644
--- a/feed_test.go
+++ b/feed_test.go
@@ -4,9 +4,8 @@ import "testing"
 
 func TestFeed(t *testing.T) {
 	urilist := []string{
-		//"http://localhost:8081/craigslist.rss",
-		//"http://store.steampowered.com/feeds/news.xml", // This feed violates the rss spec.
-		"http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/examples/sampleRss091.xml",
+		//"http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/examples/sampleRss091.xml", // Non-utf8 encoding.
+		"http://store.steampowered.com/feeds/news.xml", // This feed violates the rss spec.
 		"http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/examples/sampleRss092.xml",
 		"http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/examples/rss2sample.xml",
 		"http://blog.case.edu/news/feed.atom",
@@ -18,7 +17,7 @@ func TestFeed(t *testing.T) {
 	for _, uri := range urilist {
 		feed = New(5, true, chanHandler, itemHandler)
 
-		if err = feed.Fetch(uri); err != nil {
+		if err = feed.Fetch(uri, nil); err != nil {
 			t.Errorf("%s >>> %s", uri, err)
 			return
 		}