diff --git a/readability/htmls.py b/readability/htmls.py
index f6efac6..92598d4 100644
--- a/readability/htmls.py
+++ b/readability/htmls.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ utf8_parser = lxml.html.HTMLParser(encoding='utf-8')
 
 def build_doc(page):
     if isinstance(page, unicode):
+        enc = None
         page_unicode = page
     else:
         enc = get_encoding(page) or 'utf-8'
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f11fadd..eebe76d 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ else:
 
 setup(
     name="readability-lxml",
-    version="0.3.0.1",
+    version="0.3.0.2",
     author="Yuri Baburov",
     author_email="burchik@gmail.com",
     description="fast python port of arc90's readability tool",