diff --git a/include/network.php b/include/network.php
index c55660da8..26ed24de2 100644
--- a/include/network.php
+++ b/include/network.php
@@ -797,7 +797,7 @@ function xml2array($contents, $namespaces = true, $get_attributes=1, $priority =
 	if($namespaces)
 		$parser = @xml_parser_create_ns("UTF-8",':');
 	else
-		$parser = @xml_parser_create('UTF-8');
+		$parser = @xml_parser_create();
 
 	if(! $parser) {
 		logger('xml2array: xml_parser_create: no resource');
diff --git a/view/tpl/conv_item.tpl b/view/tpl/conv_item.tpl
index a408a83d2..dd83bd9e9 100755
--- a/view/tpl/conv_item.tpl
+++ b/view/tpl/conv_item.tpl
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 						<div class="wall-item-photo-wrapper{{if $item.owner_url}} wwfrom{{/if}} h-card p-author" id="wall-item-photo-wrapper-{{$item.id}}">
 							<img src="{{$item.thumb}}" class="fakelink wall-item-photo{{$item.sparkle}} u-photo p-name" id="wall-item-photo-{{$item.id}}" alt="{{$item.name}}"  data-toggle="dropdown" />
 							{{if $item.thread_author_menu}}
-							<i class="fa fa-caret-down wall-item-photo-caret"></i>
+							<i class="fa fa-caret-down wall-item-photo-caret fakelink" data-toggle="dropdown"></i>
 							<div class="dropdown-menu">
 								{{foreach $item.thread_author_menu as $mitem}}
 								<a class="dropdown-item" {{if $mitem.href}}href="{{$mitem.href}}"{{/if}} {{if $mitem.action}}onclick="{{$mitem.action}}"{{/if}} {{if $mitem.title}}title="{{$mitem.title}}"{{/if}} >{{$mitem.title}}</a>