core.loader: in safeDecode, don't crash on broken unicode

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ranger/core/loader.py b/ranger/core/loader.py
index 2184d2b1..b1aabb53 100644
--- a/ranger/core/loader.py
+++ b/ranger/core/loader.py
@@ -260,7 +260,8 @@ def safeDecode(string):
         return string.decode("utf-8")
     except (UnicodeDecodeError):
         if HAVE_CHARDET:
-            return string.decode(chardet.detect(string)["encoding"])
+            codec = chardet.detect(string)["encoding"]
+            return string.decode(codec, 'ignore')
         else:
             return ""