diff --git a/Classes/Utility/StringUtility.php b/Classes/Utility/StringUtility.php
index 2d96d17..f157e59 100644
--- a/Classes/Utility/StringUtility.php
+++ b/Classes/Utility/StringUtility.php
@@ -64,4 +64,11 @@ class StringUtility
         }
         return implode('', $pieces);
     }
+
+    public static function checkAndfixUtf8($string){
+        if (!mb_detect_encoding($string, 'UTF-8', true)) {
+            $string = mb_convert_encoding($string , 'UTF-8', 'ASCII');
+        }
+        return $string;
+    }
 }