Index: wp-includes/class-simplepie.php
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--- wp-includes/class-simplepie.php	(revision 17609)
+++ wp-includes/class-simplepie.php	(working copy)
@@ -9432,7 +9432,7 @@
 			return SimplePie_Misc::windows_1252_to_utf8($data);
 		}
 		// This is second, as behaviour of this varies only with PHP version (the middle part of this expression checks the encoding is supported).
-		elseif (function_exists('mb_convert_encoding') && @mb_convert_encoding("\x80", 'UTF-16BE', $input) !== "\x00\x80" && ($return = @mb_convert_encoding($data, $output, $input)))
+		elseif (function_exists('mb_convert_encoding') && @mb_convert_encoding("\x80", 'UTF-16BE', $input) !== "\x00\x80" && in_array( $input, mb_list_encodings() ) && ($return = @mb_convert_encoding($data, $output, $input)))
 		{
 			return $return;
 		}