diff --git a/shared/common/XhtmlGenerator.py b/shared/common/XhtmlGenerator.py
index 09641550..19b4547e 100755
--- a/shared/common/XhtmlGenerator.py
+++ b/shared/common/XhtmlGenerator.py
@@ -782,6 +782,8 @@ def getAsIs(object, **keywords):
         return ''.join([
             getAsIs(item, **keywords)
             for item in object])
+    elif type(object) is types.UnicodeType:
+        return object.encode('iso-8859-1')
     else:
         return str(object)