diff --git a/react/features/base/util/uri.js b/react/features/base/util/uri.js
index 197b480e7..d20d3146b 100644
--- a/react/features/base/util/uri.js
+++ b/react/features/base/util/uri.js
@@ -120,8 +120,12 @@ export function getBackendSafeRoomName(room: ?string): ?string {
         // But in this case we're fine goin on...
     }
 
-    // Normalize the character set
-    room = room.normalize('NFKC');
+    try {
+        // Normalize the character set
+        room = room.normalize('NFKC');
+    } catch (e) {
+        // Android's JSC does not seem to be a full-ICU build so this will raise an exception.
+    }
 
     // Only decoded and normalized strings can be lowercased properly.
     room = room.toLowerCase();