From 8376b69f25e60acb6eb1ac7d629edb4ad3ded2b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Athou <jeremiepanzer@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:56:30 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] prevent NPE

---
 src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/feeds/FeedUtils.java | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/feeds/FeedUtils.java b/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/feeds/FeedUtils.java
index a8966c5f..40faa799 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/feeds/FeedUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/feeds/FeedUtils.java
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ public class FeedUtils {
 	}
 
 	public static String trimUnicodeSurrogateCharacters(String text) {
+		if (StringUtils.isBlank(text)) {
+			return null;
+		}
 		StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
 		for (int i = 0; i < text.length(); i++) {
 			char ch = text.charAt(i);