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| -rw-r--r-- | ranger/ext/widestring.py | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ranger/ext/widestring.py b/ranger/ext/widestring.py index 88565b89..31e41210 100644 --- a/ranger/ext/widestring.py +++ b/ranger/ext/widestring.py @@ -53,7 +53,15 @@ def string_to_charlist(string): class WideString(object): def __init__(self, string, chars=None): - self.string = string + try: + self.string = str(string) + except UnicodeEncodeError: + # Here I assume that string is a "unicode" object, because why else + # would str(string) raise a UnicodeEncodeError? + try: + self.string = string.encode('latin-1', 'ignore') + except: + self.string = "" if chars is None: self.chars = string_to_charlist(string) else: |