diff --git a/lib/WebGUI/Asset/Wobject/SyndicatedContent.pm b/lib/WebGUI/Asset/Wobject/SyndicatedContent.pm
index cbaec9275..27494239d 100644
--- a/lib/WebGUI/Asset/Wobject/SyndicatedContent.pm
+++ b/lib/WebGUI/Asset/Wobject/SyndicatedContent.pm
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ sub generateFeed {
         # if the content can be downgraded, it is either valid latin1 or didn't have
         # an HTTP Content-Encoding header.  In the second case, XML::FeedPP will take
         # care of any encoding specified in the XML prolog
-        utf8::downgrade($value, 1) ? 1 : 0;
+        utf8::downgrade($value, 1);
         eval {
             my $singleFeed = XML::FeedPP->new($value, utf8_flag => 1, -type => 'string', xml_deref => 1, @opt);
             $feed->merge_channel($singleFeed);