diff --git a/LegendsViewer/Legends/World.cs b/LegendsViewer/Legends/World.cs
index f7a374e..6025b8b 100644
--- a/LegendsViewer/Legends/World.cs
+++ b/LegendsViewer/Legends/World.cs
@@ -107,7 +107,9 @@ private void GenerateCivIdenticons()
                 //19+ reduced color variance
                 int maxHue = 300;
                 int colorVariance;
-                if (races.Count <= 6) colorVariance = Convert.ToInt32(Math.Floor(maxHue / Convert.ToDouble(races.Count - 1)));
+                if (races.Count <= 1)
+                    colorVariance = 0;
+                else if (races.Count <= 6) colorVariance = Convert.ToInt32(Math.Floor(maxHue / Convert.ToDouble(races.Count - 1)));
                 else if (races.Count > 18) colorVariance = Convert.ToInt32(Math.Floor(maxHue / (Math.Ceiling(races.Count / 3.0) - 1)));
                 else colorVariance = 60;
 
diff --git a/LegendsViewer/Legends/XMLParser.cs b/LegendsViewer/Legends/XMLParser.cs
index 0436731..f02ae1f 100644
--- a/LegendsViewer/Legends/XMLParser.cs
+++ b/LegendsViewer/Legends/XMLParser.cs
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ class XMLParser
         public XMLParser(World world, string xmlFile)
         {
             World = world;
-            XML = new XmlTextReader(xmlFile);
+            StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(xmlFile, Encoding.GetEncoding("windows-1252"));
+            XML = new XmlTextReader(reader);
             XML.WhitespaceHandling = WhitespaceHandling.Significant;
         }