diff --git a/plugins/strip_non_utf8.inc b/plugins/strip_non_utf8.inc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..373f6cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/strip_non_utf8.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+<?php
+
+/**
+ * @file
+ * Converts Removes invalid UTF-8 sequences from a string.
+ */
+
+$plugin = array(
+  'form' => 'feeds_tamper_strip_non_utf8_form',
+  'callback' => 'feeds_tamper_strip_non_utf8_callback',
+  'name' => 'Strip non-UTF-8',
+  'multi' => 'loop',
+  'category' => 'Text',
+);
+
+function feeds_tamper_strip_non_utf8_form($importer, $element_key, $settings) {
+  $form = array();
+  $form['html'] = array(
+    '#markup' => t('Removes invalid UTF-8 sequences from a string.'),
+  );
+  return $form;
+}
+
+function feeds_tamper_strip_non_utf8_callback($result, $item_key, $element_key, &$field, $settings, $source) {
+  // based on regex from http://stackoverflow.com/a/1401716
+  
+  $regex = '/((?:[\x00-\x7F]|[\xC0-\xDF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xE0-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]{2}|[\xF0-\xF7][\x80-\xBF]{3}){1,100})|./';
+
+  $field = preg_replace($regex, '$1', $field);
+}
+
diff --git a/plugins/utf8_encode.inc b/plugins/utf8_encode.inc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c0cfea0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/utf8_encode.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+<?php
+
+/**
+ * @file
+ * Converts ISO-8859-1 to UTF8.
+ */
+
+$plugin = array(
+  'form' => 'feeds_tamper_utf8_encode_form',
+  'callback' => 'feeds_tamper_utf8_encode_callback',
+  'name' => 'Convert ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8',
+  'multi' => 'loop',
+  'category' => 'Text',
+);
+
+function feeds_tamper_utf8_encode_form($importer, $element_key, $settings) {
+  $form = array();
+  $form['html'] = array(
+    '#markup' => t('This will convert all ISO-8859-1 characters to their UTF-8 equivalents.'),
+  );
+  return $form;
+}
+
+function feeds_tamper_utf8_encode_callback($result, $item_key, $element_key, &$field, $settings, $source) {
+  $field = drupal_convert_to_utf8($field, 'ISO-8859-1');
+}
diff --git a/tests/feeds_tamper_plugins.test b/tests/feeds_tamper_plugins.test
index 99ba24e..0b577d7 100644
--- a/tests/feeds_tamper_plugins.test
+++ b/tests/feeds_tamper_plugins.test
@@ -1020,3 +1020,43 @@ class FeedsTamperUniqueTestCase extends FeedsTamperUnitTestCase {
     $this->execute(array(1, 1, 2, 3, 4), array(1, 2, 3, 4));
   }
 }
+
+/**
+ * Tests for utf8_encode.inc
+ */
+class FeedsTamperUTF8EncodeTestCase extends FeedsTamperUnitTestCase {
+
+  protected $plugin_id = 'utf8_encode';
+
+  public static function getInfo() {
+    return array(
+      'name' => 'Plugins: Convert ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8',
+      'description' => 'Unit tests for "Convert ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8" plugin.',
+      'group' => 'Feeds Tamper',
+    );
+  }
+ 
+  public function test() {
+    $this->execute("\x41\xc0\xc1\xc2\xc4\xc3\xc5", 'AÀÁÂÄÃÅ');
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Tests for utf8_estrip_non_utf8ncode.inc
+ */
+class FeedsTamperStripNonUTF8TestCase extends FeedsTamperUnitTestCase {
+
+  protected $plugin_id = 'strip_non_utf8';
+
+  public static function getInfo() {
+    return array(
+      'name' => 'Plugins: Strip non-UTF-8',
+      'description' => 'Unit tests for "Strip non-UTF-8" plugin.',
+      'group' => 'Feeds Tamper',
+    );
+  }
+
+  public function test() {
+    $this->execute("foo\x80\x81\x92\xE0\x80bar", 'foobar');
+  }
+}