code: def body
        text_file = default_text
  
        if RUBY_VERSION < "1.9"
          @body = text_file ? IO.read(text_file.path).strip : ""
          require 'iconv'
          ic = Iconv.new('UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1')
          @body = ic.iconv(@body)
          @body << ic.iconv(nil)
          ic.close
        else
          @body = text_file ? IO.read(text_file.path, :mode => "rb").strip : ""
          @body = @body.chars.select{|i| i.valid_encoding?}.join
        end
  
        if @body.blank? &&
           html_file = default_html
          html = Nokogiri::HTML(IO.read(html_file.path))
          @body = (html.xpath("//head/title").map(&:text) + html.xpath("//body/*").map(&:text)).join(" ")
        end
        @body
      end
docs: Convenience method that returns a string including all the text of the
   default text/plain file found.  If the plain text is blank then it returns
   stripped down version of the title and body of default text/html.  Returns
   empty string if no body text is found.