use Encode;
use utf8;

sub parse_workaround {
        my $html = shift;
        my $hs = HTML::Strip->new();
        my $octets = encode_utf8($html);
        utf8::downgrade($octets);
        my $stripped = $hs->parse($octets);
        $hs->eof;
        return decode_utf8($stripped);
}