diff --git a/lib/gollum/markup.rb b/lib/gollum/markup.rb
index d1fa9fa0..2f27d6fa 100644
--- a/lib/gollum/markup.rb
+++ b/lib/gollum/markup.rb
@@ -558,12 +558,12 @@ module Gollum
         encoding ||= 'utf-8'
         begin
           hl_code = Pygments.highlight(code, :lexer => lang, :options => {:encoding => encoding.to_s})
-        rescue ::RubyPython::PythonError
+        rescue
           hl_code = code
         end
         highlighted << hl_code
       end
-      
+
       @codemap.each do |id, spec|
         body = spec[:output] || begin
           if (body = highlighted.shift.to_s).size > 0
diff --git a/test/test_markup.rb b/test/test_markup.rb
index 3424e92a..285be397 100644
--- a/test/test_markup.rb
+++ b/test/test_markup.rb
@@ -534,6 +534,14 @@ np.array([[2,2],[1,3]],np.float)
     assert_equal %Q{<p>a\n</p><div class=\"highlight\"><pre><span class=\"nt\">&lt;p&gt;</span>a\n!rel<span class=\"nt\">&lt;/p&gt;</span>\n</pre></div>\n}, output
   end
 
+  test "code block in unsupported language" do
+    @wiki.write_page("a", :markdown, "a\n```nonexistent\ncode\n```\nb", commit_details)
+
+    page = @wiki.page("a")
+    output = page.formatted_data
+    assert_equal %Q{<p>a\ncode\nb</p>}, output
+  end
+
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