diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 094cc28..d2350e4 100755
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: paperboy
 Title: Comprehensive Collection of News Media Scrapers
 Version: 0.0.5.9000
-Date: 2023-11-21
+Date: 2023-11-30
 Authors@R:
     person(given = "Johannes B.",
            family = "Gruber",
diff --git a/R/deliver_default.R b/R/deliver_default.R
index 260f70e..3408df7 100644
--- a/R/deliver_default.R
+++ b/R/deliver_default.R
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ pb_deliver_paper.default <- function(x, verbose = NULL, pb, ...) {
   if (methods::is(html, "try-error")) {
     # TODO: work-around for weird encoding issues
     tmp <- tempfile(fileext = ".html")
-    writeLines(x$content_raw, tmp)
+    writeLines(gsub("[^ -~]+", "", x$content_raw , useBytes = TRUE), tmp)
     html <- rvest::read_html(tmp)
   }
   warn_once(x$domain)
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-deliver.R b/tests/testthat/test-deliver.R
index 86a8bb2..f69de97 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-deliver.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-deliver.R
@@ -46,11 +46,3 @@ test_that("Test huffpost scraper", {
   }, c("tbl_df", "tbl", "data.frame", "9", "1"))
 })
 
-test_that("Local test data can be parsed", {
-  skip_if(!file.exists("test_data.rds"))
-  test_data <- readRDS("test_data.rds")
-  expect_equal({
-    out <- pb_deliver(test_data)
-    c(class(out), ncol(out), nrow(out))
-  }, c("tbl_df", "tbl", "data.frame", "9", "80"))
-})