1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/utils.py b/utils.py
index e5fc455d..5587ce0e 100755
--- a/utils.py
+++ b/utils.py
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ def clear_string(data):
     """
     p = re.compile(r'<[^<]*?/?>') # HTML tags
     q = re.compile(r'\s') # consecutive white spaces
-    return p.sub('', q.sub(' ', data.replace('', '')))
+    return p.sub('', q.sub(' ', data))
 
 def unescape(text):
     """