diff --git a/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/songshowplusimport.py b/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/songshowplusimport.py
index abfa0a84e..aaa3b7ad9 100644
--- a/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/songshowplusimport.py
+++ b/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/songshowplusimport.py
@@ -227,8 +227,4 @@ class SongShowPlusImport(SongImport):
         try:
             return unicode(data, chardet.detect(data)['encoding'])
         except:
-            while True:
-                try:
-                    return unicode(data, self.encoding)
-                except:
-                    self.encoding = retrieve_windows_encoding()
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+            return unicode(data, u'cp1252')
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