diff -ur libpst-0.6.64.org/src/libpst.c libpst-0.6.64/src/libpst.c
--- libpst-0.6.64.org/src/libpst.c	2015-03-09 18:57:46.000000000 +0100
+++ libpst-0.6.64/src/libpst.c	2015-07-02 01:22:36.706070484 +0200
@@ -1835,6 +1835,7 @@
                     size_t rc;
                     static pst_vbuf *utf16buf = NULL;
                     static pst_vbuf *utf8buf  = NULL;
+		    char* mycharset = "iso-8859-1//TRANSLIT//IGNORE";
                     if (!utf16buf) utf16buf = pst_vballoc((size_t)1024);
                     if (!utf8buf)  utf8buf  = pst_vballoc((size_t)1024);
 
@@ -1845,7 +1846,12 @@
                     DEBUG_HEXDUMPC(utf16buf->b, utf16buf->dlen, 0x10);
                     rc = pst_vb_utf16to8(utf8buf, utf16buf->b, utf16buf->dlen);
                     if (rc == (size_t)-1) {
-                        DEBUG_WARN(("Failed to convert utf-16 to utf-8\n"));
+                        DEBUG_WARN(("Failed to convert utf-16 to utf-8, trying 8bit ...\n"));
+                        rc = pst_vb_8bit2utf8(utf8buf, utf16buf->b, utf16buf->dlen-1, mycharset);
+                        free(mo_ptr->elements[x]->data);
+                        mo_ptr->elements[x]->size = strlen(utf8buf->b);
+                        mo_ptr->elements[x]->data = pst_malloc(strlen(utf8buf->b));
+                        memcpy(mo_ptr->elements[x]->data, utf8buf->b, strlen(utf8buf->b));
                     }
                     else {
                         free(mo_ptr->elements[x]->data);
Kun i libpst-0.6.64/src: Makefile
diff -ur libpst-0.6.64.org/src/vbuf.c libpst-0.6.64/src/vbuf.c
--- libpst-0.6.64.org/src/vbuf.c	2015-03-09 18:57:46.000000000 +0100
+++ libpst-0.6.64/src/vbuf.c	2015-07-02 01:06:45.686042098 +0200
@@ -218,7 +218,13 @@
     char *outbuf        = NULL;
     int   myerrno;
 
-    if (!unicode_up) return (size_t)-1;   // failure to open iconv
+    if (inbuf[1] != '\0' ) {
+       DEBUG_WARN(("UTF-16 called, but content probably ISO. Returning ... \n"));
+       unicode_up = 0;
+    } else {
+       DEBUG_WARN(("Decoding UTF-16 content ... \n"));
+    }
+    if (!unicode_up) { unicode_up = 1; return (size_t)-1; }   // failure to open iconv
     pst_vbresize(dest, iblen);
 
     //Bad Things can happen if a non-zero-terminated utf16 string comes through here