diff --git a/Src/Sunra/PhpSimple/simplehtmldom_1_5/simple_html_dom.php b/Src/Sunra/PhpSimple/simplehtmldom_1_5/simple_html_dom.php
index df46ee4..279d589 100644
--- a/Src/Sunra/PhpSimple/simplehtmldom_1_5/simple_html_dom.php
+++ b/Src/Sunra/PhpSimple/simplehtmldom_1_5/simple_html_dom.php
@@ -1245,7 +1245,7 @@ protected function parse_charset()
         if (empty($charset))
         {
             // Have php try to detect the encoding from the text given to us.
-            $charset = mb_detect_encoding($this->root->plaintext . "ascii", $encoding_list = array( "UTF-8", "CP1252" ) );
+            $charset = (function_exists('mb_detect_encoding')) ? mb_detect_encoding($this->root->plaintext . "ascii", $encoding_list = array( "UTF-8", "CP1252" ) ) : false;
             if (is_object($debugObject)) {$debugObject->debugLog(2, 'mb_detect found: ' . $charset);}
 
             // and if this doesn't work...  then we need to just wrongheadedly assume it's UTF-8 so that we can move on - cause this will usually give us most of what we need...