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| -rw-r--r-- | ranger/ext/widestring.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ranger/ext/widestring.py b/ranger/ext/widestring.py index dac54efd..88565b89 100644 --- a/ranger/ext/widestring.py +++ b/ranger/ext/widestring.py @@ -36,7 +36,14 @@ def string_to_charlist(string): if east_asian_width(c) in WIDE_SYMBOLS: result.append('') else: - string = string.decode('utf-8', 'ignore') + try: + # This raised a "UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode + # character u'\xe4' in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)" + # for me once. I thought errors='ignore' means IGNORE THE DAMN + # ERRORS but apparently it doesn't. + string = string.decode('utf-8', 'ignore') + except UnicodeEncodeError: + return [] for c in string: result.append(c.encode('utf-8')) if east_asian_width(c) in WIDE_SYMBOLS: |